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Title details for The Blind Side by Michael Lewis - Available

The Blind Side

Evolution of a Game

by Michael Lewis
Stephen Hoye
Audiobook
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In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.
What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. Their love is the first great force that alters the world’s perception of the boy, whom they adopt. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself.
In THE BLIND SIDE, Lewis shows us a largely unanalyzed but inexorable trend in football working its way down from the pros to the high school game, where it collides with the life of a single young man to produce a narrative of great and surprising power.

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  • Release date

    October 3, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780739346877
      • File size: 340248 KB
      • Duration: 11:48:50

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 980
    • Text Difficulty: 5-7

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      With MONEYBALL, Michael Lewis established himself as a premier chronicler of the role of money in professional sports. In THE BLIND SIDE, Lewis solidifies his position, presenting a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of left tackles as key players in professional football. The book focuses significantly on Michael Oher, a ghetto kid without education or family, who enrolls at a predominantly white Christian school. Stephen Hoye's narration is ideal. Hoye is presented with a diverse cast of characters, and he provides each with a distinct style--from the Tuohys, who take in, educate, and socialize Oher, to the "NCAA Lady," who tries to find evil behind every good deed. Hoye varies his delivery and tone superbly, presenting an ideal parallel to the emotions his listeners surely will share. D.J.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      This book suffers from a disjointedness that is exacerbated by the audio abridgment. One part is an examination of one of the arcane but critical elements of professional football: the importance of the offensive tackle who protects the quarterback's blind side. The bulk of the audio explores the life of a young man from inner city Memphis who has the potential to make millions as a professional football lineman. This latter story is fascinating and compelling. Grover Gardner is suited to the task of narrating, using speed and a bit of volume to add emphasis without artifice. He generally doesn't give figures separate voices, except for the University of Mississippi football coach. Both the audio and the book itself would have been stronger had each focused only on the young football phenom. R.C.G. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:980
  • Text Difficulty:5-7

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