The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Overview

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw, "The Blind Side" tells the inspirational story of Michael Oher, a homeless black teen who, with the help of his new family, coaches, and tutors, becomes a star football player and first-round NFL draft pick. Its not a jock book. Its not a sociology book. Its a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good.

One day Michael Oher will be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.

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Author Information

Bio of Michael Lewis

The author of the bestsellers Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, and Moneyball, Michael Lewis writes regularly for the New York Times Magazine and Bloomberg News. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Customer Reviews

• Great Story lost in A Horrible Book

  Posted November 15, 2009 by Elissa, Phoenix, AZ

  After seeing the previews for this movie, I wanted to read the book, since I am one of those people who likes to read the book before seeing the movie. It looked like a great story. And the story of Michael Oher is truly very interesting, too bad it's not the focal point of this book.
  
  Yes, I'm a gal who has never actually PLAYED football, however, I do watch it regularly on the weekends at both the college and pro level, so I do understand the basics of the game. However, this book is not written to my level, nor to my husband?s level who is more enthusiastic about the game. This book is written at the level of a veteran ESPN announcer who has the attention span and patience to muddle through the author's stream-of-consciousness writings.
  
  When I first started reading the book, I was confused, where was the story depicted in the previews? After giving up with trying to read the book after 20 eReader pages of nothing but historical football babble, I skimmed ahead to find where Michael's story started. I found it about 70 pages later where it continued for a hundred or so pages. Then, in the middle of the story, the author went off on some tangent about Joe Montana and a pro coach for 20 pages that really didn't relate to the story at all.
  
  I'm confused, was this book not edited? It truly reads like the author?s notes from his interviews and research. Or perhaps it would work better as a screenplay for a documentary where we cut out from the main action for extended period of time to go off on a tangent that may or may not be directly related to the action of the story.
  
  So, to sum up, I'm very sad that I spent $10 on this book. I wouldn't recommend it at all, especially if you are looking for the story advertised in the movie. I would suggest that you go to Wikipeida and read Michael's story there. you'll find almost as much information with as much emotion as is presented in this book without the annoying skimming of worthless text.

• Too many stats!

  Posted November 17, 2009 by Shelley, Windsor

  WOW If I wanted to read a book on the history of Football and all the stats going back to day one that's what I would have purchased. I was extremely disappointed in this book. It's content is so full of Football stats, Coaching History, Even occupactions of Former Coach's Dad's.....that it hardly touched on Michael's story, which was what I thought I would be reading. It's a shame really because I know there is a story about Michael and that is what should have been told.

Additional Info

Imprint

W. W. Norton & Company

Filesize

2.95 MB

Number of Pages

352

eBook ISBN

9780393067392