The Blind Side

Author(s): Michael Lewis

Sports/Fitness

When we first meet him, Michael Oher 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 and 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 into a game where 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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The New York Times Bestseller

Joint winner for YALSA Alex Award 2007.

"The Blind Side is a wonderful tale." John Gapper, Financial Times "Lewis has made a habit of writing about sport recently, but sport is really only a subtext for a much more meaningful examination of class and race. I wept at the end, something I have not done at the end of a work of non-fiction for a very long time." Malcolm Gladwell, The Observer, Books of the Year 2006 "The strongest strand of The Blind Side is about sporting strategy. When brain defeats brawn in one of Michael Lewis's books, you can almost hear the prose style lift off." The Times "[The Blind Side] provides deep insights about sport and America." Ed Smith, The Spectator "...a brilliant analysis of the evolution of American football..." Nick Hornby, Guardian "Lewis is the finest storyteller of our generation, and this is his best book...it's actually an extraordinary story about love and redemption." Malcolm Gladwell, Best Books 2008, The Week "...a brilliant book..." The Independent "...a compelling book..." The Economist "The Blind Side combines tactical analysis with an account of a young sportsman's astonishing life and career. With this and Moneyball, Lewis has written the two best sports books of the last five years." Nick Hornby's Top 40 Books, The Times

Michael Lewis is the author of the best-selling Liar's Poker, The New New Thing and "brilliant" (The Spectator), "fascinating story and absorbing read" (The Daily Mail) Moneyball, Michael Lewis writes regularly for The New York Times magazine and Bloomberg News.

General Fields

  • : 9780393338386
  • : WW Norton Co
  • : WW Norton Co
  • : 0.323
  • : 30 September 2009
  • : 207mm X 141mm X 23mm
  • : United States
  • : 01 October 2011
  • : 01 April 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Illustrations
  • : American football
  • : 320
  • : 796.332092
  • : Film tie-in edition
  • : Paperback
  • : Michael Lewis