{"product_id":"no-friday-night-lights-reservation-football-on-the-edge-of-america-paperback-softback-9781496231499","title":"No Friday Night Lights; Reservation Football on the Edge of America (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496231499","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNo Friday Night Lights\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReservation Football on the Edge of America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn M. Glionna (Author), Glenn Stout (Foreword by), Ron Kantowski (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496231499\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages, 29 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.382 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNo Friday Night Lights \u003c\/i\u003efeatures a smart, sharp reporter taking us to a place we'd never be able to visit on our own-a place, frankly, we probably wouldn't want to visit. Glionna finds humanity and community there, and occasional glimpses of hope.\"-Will Leitch, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In his nuanced, deeply reported, and beautifully written book, John Glionna takes us to a tiny town with a rugged past, uneasy present, and uncertain future. Still, the indomitable residents and their high school’s struggling eight-man football team carry on. Glionna reminds us why such towns and teams matter.”-Steve Padilla, editor with the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“With a lysergic flair for heart-of-America storytelling, John M. Glionna takes us deep into a football country where few boys are left with what they need to bring a much-needed win to a town on the other side of glory days. Get in the truck and let Glionna take the wheel. You’re in good hands for a periscope view into a contemporary slice of the American West you’ve never before seen.”-Ed Komenda, reporter for the Associated Press\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Veteran reporter John Glionna tells the story of McDermitt, Nevada, population 114, a dying former mining town steeped in poverty where the fielding of an eight-man high school football team is a Sisyphean task that underscores how, even in the face of crushing defeat, sport offers hope by building character. For the McDermitt Bulldogs, winning isn’t the goal-simply being able to play the game is.”-Mike Anton, former reporter for the \u003ci\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Ever a friend of the underdog, John M. Glionna travels the secluded backroads of Nevada to chronicle the travails of a hardscrabble reservation football team. Along the way we encounter all manner of characters, from the young high school athletes and their fans to a supportive if dwindling community clinging to their routines in an abandoned mining town. The McDermitt Bulldogs rarely win, but the players and the town itself remain resilient champions on the field of life.”-Joe Eckdahl, assistant managing editor of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, retired\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In this terrifically poignant, soulful book about a hollowed-out town and its remaining people, John Glionna makes you feel as though you’re walking through lilies in the field, everything blessed and enlivened by his attentiveness, humor, and real affection.”-Robert Basil, professor of communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“While the typical traveler through McDermitt, Nevada, hastens to put this dying, segregated town behind him, John Glionna saw something different, through the lens of the town’s eight-man high school football team, coached by a white and a Native American. Having endured persistent adversity in their personal lives, the coaches fielded teams that, though nearly always scoreless, endured failure with grace and dignity. Glionna’s plainspoken, inspirational study of these young football failures guides the reader into the rich soul of this community.”-David H. Wilson Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eNorthern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“John Glionna is one of our best narrative journalists. This book shows why-about a piece of our country that’s never had it easy, now populated with the Say When casino, mercury mines, Paiutes and whites and their history, and a coach who battles each year to field an eight-man high school football team. Haunting yet peaceful as a ranch at dusk, his story doesn’t find endings made in Hollywood but instead in a real and forgotten American small town that no one, not even its own residents, expects to make it.”-Sam Quinones, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Least of Us\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDreamland\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“There are few better feelings for a nonfiction bibliophile than to escape life’s requirements and return to a cast of literary characters you were reluctant to leave in the first place. \u003ci\u003eNo Friday Night Lights\u003c\/i\u003e was that book for me. . . . Small town football is this story’s centerpiece, but those tied to it by seemingly the thinnest of threads are as fascinating as the players and coaches. McDermitt may be a speck on the map, but it looms large in this raconteur’s tale.”-Tris Wykes, reporter for the \u003ci\u003eValley News\u003c\/i\u003e (West Lebanon, NH)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 Spur Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 American Writing Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Friday Night Lights\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a rural Nevada high school football team that never wins. Veteran reporter John M. Glionna examines the 2022 season in which the McDermitt Bulldogs practiced for weeks in the summer only to learn once again that they had come up short of the necessary players due to the dwindling population on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation on the Nevada-Oregon border.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eight-man football helps give the coaches and kids a sense of community-despite a lack of wins, and despite their home’s status as one of the most remote locations for a public school in the West. Glionna’s relationships with coaches, players, parents-and even those McDermitt residents remotely connected to high school football-provide telling insights into local lives, many of them from the Paiute and Shoshone tribes of Fort McDermitt. Although victory and recognition elude the players, Glionna illuminates their hard work and dedication-leaving the reader with glimpses of life on the ground in “flyover” country.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Glenn Stout\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Ron Kantowski \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. Chapter One\u003cbr\u003e 2. Chapter Two\u003cbr\u003e 3. Chapter Three\u003cbr\u003e 4. Chapter Four\u003cbr\u003e 5. Chapter Five\u003cbr\u003e 6. Chapter Six\u003cbr\u003e 7. Chapter Seven\u003cbr\u003e 8. Chapter Eight\u003cbr\u003e 9. Chapter Nine\u003cbr\u003e 10. Chapter Ten\u003cbr\u003e 11. Chapter Eleven\u003cbr\u003e 12. Chapter Twelve\u003cbr\u003e 13. Chapter Thirteen\u003cbr\u003e 14. Chapter Fourteen\u003cbr\u003e 15. Chapter Fifteen\u003cbr\u003e 16. Chapter Sixteen\u003cbr\u003e 17. Chapter Seventeen\u003cbr\u003e 18. Chapter Eighteen\u003cbr\u003e 19. Chapter Nineteen\u003cbr\u003e 20. Chapter Twenty\u003cbr\u003e 21. Chapter Twenty-One\u003cbr\u003e 22. Chapter Twenty-Two\u003cbr\u003e 23. Chapter Twenty-Three \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Further Reading \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600021844248,"sku":"9781496231499","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/no-friday-night-lights-reservation-football-on-the-edge-of-america-paperback-softback-9781496231499","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}