Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

H. G. Bissinger. Harper Perennial, $14 (364pp) ISBN 978-0-06-097406-0

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bissinger spent 1988 in Odessa, Tex., a town obsessed with its champion high-school football team, the Permian Panthers. PW called this a ``superb, if disquieting, portrait of heartland America.'' (Sept.)

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