Read more that way, I realize, makes it sound deadly dull. Jay Hancock - Baltimore Sun "The Blind Side is as insightful and moving a meditation on class inequality in America as I have ever read-although to put it. It’s a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good." Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback’s greatest vulnerability, his blind. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family’s love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. 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 or write. he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."-Janet Maslin, New York Times Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 pages of photographs. Field sports: fishing, hunting, shootingĭescription for The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game Paperback.
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