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The Blind Side (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions) |  | Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Movie Tie-in Edition
Pages: 352
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 039333838X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332092
EAN: 9780393338386
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Product Description
The book behind the Academy award-winning film starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw. Opening in theaters November 20, 2009, The Blind Side is a feature movie based on Michael’s Lewis’s New York Times bestseller, produced by Alcon Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The Blind Side tells the inspirational story of Michael Oher, a homeless black teen taken under the wing of the Touhys, a wealthy white Memphis family. Oher’s size and speed on the football field bring him accolades. But learning the game’s strategy and making it as a student take the help of his new family, coaches, and tutor.
Sandra Bullock stars as Leigh Anne Touhy, the sharp-witted and compassionate matriarch. Tim McGraw stars as her sports-enthusiast husband. Oscar winner Kathy Bates plays Miss Sue, Oher’s indefatigable tutor. Quinton Aaron has his first major role as Oher. John Lee Hancock, who directed The Rookie and The Alamo, writes and directs the film.
Michael Oher was just drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens. This edition includes a new afterword bringing Oher’s life up to date through college and the NFL.
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 Wow August 18, 2010
S. Bushnell (Coeur D'Alene, ID USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't like football. I would not see the movie. I was surprised when Sandra Bullock got an award for the movie based on this book. Then I read the book. I LOVE THIS BOOK. The most important part is that the main character accepts Jesus into his heart!
 Wonderful Story of Wish Fulfillment! August 11, 2010
Bookfestival (Aiea, HI)
I love 'The Blind Side' and I never watch football. I did skip some pages that were only about football. Michael Lewis explained the football parts very well, but I just wanted to get back to the story. I stayed up until 5:00 am reading 'The Blind Side' and I was surprised to see the sun coming up. I highly recommend 'The Blind Side'.
love and insparational book July 24, 2010
I really admire this book its a great football book and great for people who love who love football to read. I also have a little brother who is working on being in the NFL when he is older.
Great Storyteller, Great Story July 21, 2010
Matt Coulter
Everybody knows the story recounted in The Blind Side, so I won't recap it here for you. I'll just tell you this was a great book - one of the best I've read this year. It was historical narrative, but unlike other books of this genre by other authors, Michael Lewis did several things really well with this one.
He managed the web of characters really well. He gave background and history on most of the folks, and introduced you to all the main and supporting characters but never to the point where the complexities made it difficult to keep everybody straight (like, for example, in Charlie Wilson's War -- which, granted, covered a wider scope but got bogged down too much with all the characters). It was easy to follow and remember who everybody was - from all the assistant coaches to Michael Oher's mom and siblings to his long lost childhood friend.
Lewis also managed the pace and scope of the story well. It never felt jumpy or choppy (like, say, 5 Cities That Ruled the World) like it was zooming in and out from metanarrative to minute details and back. The pace was even and kept my interest the entire time. Anecdotes from football were timely and neatly inserted to highlight and complement Oher's and the Tuohy's story, and broke it up just enough to keep you reading.
And finally, Lewis didn't beat you over the head with any sort of moral of the story, so to speak. He simply told the story and let its power speak for itself, and then left it up to the reader to draw any sort of conclusions or morals they wanted. (A practice which is much too underdone in writing these days - and which evidently allowed many people to get upset rather than inspired by the book. According to his new afterword, he got letters from conservatives, liberals, whites, blacks, Christians, and nonchristians all complaining about the story.)
Lewis is a great storyteller and this was a great story. That combination is a powerful force which results in a great book.
Evolution of the Game ... Football and Lif July 19, 2010
Happy
You really should have some appreciation for the game of football in order to really enjoy this book. Presuming you do then you will be able to follow the evolution of not only the game of football but life in America during those same years. I was born in the early 50's, watched football on TV during the 60's 70's 80's so I can understand the technical and huge social impact of "the game" and how it evolved. That part of the book I found was very interesting informative and well worth the read. Having grown up in a family with a Dad that played and coached football during the 50's 60's and 70's this book does a great job in documenting the social issues of poverty and affluence then and now. The book conveys the difficult years we all faced and still face today in this country between the haves and have nots ... poverty and wealth the clash of the classes. A very good story worthy of a Ken Burns PBS special ... have not seen the Sandra Bullock movie ... not sure I want to ... maybe too Hollywood for me but will give it a try. Hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.
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