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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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"I really enjoyed this book----even the football parts. I found it really interesting and now I can appear a little more knowledgeable when watching football with the guys "
— Amy (4 out of 5 stars)
Awards
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One of the 2006 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Nonfiction
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Winner of Margaret A. Edwards Award (Alex Awards), 2007
The Blind Side Listener Reviews
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Jackie Medina, 11/21/2016
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" The movie only really covered a chapter or two of this book and left out some of the best stuff, especially a lot of cool NFL football history. "
— Jamie, 5/22/2011 -
" Excellent, even if it brings back horrible memories of that hit on Theisman. "
— Kristopher, 5/20/2011 -
" This was actually a great book but it was a lot more about football than Michael Oher so if you are looking forsomething about him there are better books out there. "
— Colleen, 5/19/2011 -
" This book had moments of greatness but it was much more about the sport of football than the story of Michael Oher. So if you are looking for a great book about football this is a nice read, but if you are looking for more about Michael Oher there are better books:) "
— Colleen, 5/19/2011 -
" The movie was better. The book was too much about the details and technicalities of football. Wonderful story, better to watch. "
— Erin, 5/16/2011 -
" I actually enjoyed the movie better. The book was a bit boring, because it focused more on the recruitment process than on Oher as a person. "
— Kyle, 5/15/2011 -
" It was an awesome book but it was also kinda sad it almost made me wanna cry! "
— Zimmerman8493, 5/15/2011 -
" Interesting history of football. Very abrupt ending. "
— Jenna, 5/10/2011
About Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis is the New York Times bestselling author of several books. His global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our time. They include Flash Boys, an exposé of high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was made into a Oscar-winning film; Liar’s Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s; The Fifth Risk, revealing what happens when democracy unravels, and The Premonition, one of the first books to take account of the coronavirus pandemic. He was educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.
About Grover Gardner
Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.