![]() ![]() ![]() That was a true and accurate description of downtown and Buzz uses it to generate a particular vision of Odessa as an empty, dusty, dying, place. A very easy example would be his opening description of down town Odessa being devoid of pedestrians and the old down town Scott movie theater being shut down with the words “The End” on the marque. It seems to me that Buzz Bissinger deliberately points out and emphasizes particular facts that fit his narrative, while leaving out other facts that would diminish his thesis. I’ve discussed my second reading with people close to me who grew up in Odessa at the same time, to ask them how they remember those days. I just listened to the book, 30 years later, to see if my perspective on it and that time had evolved with the passage of time. I read the book, as a high school kid when it came out and, like so many from Odessa, was furious at the way my town was portrayed. I was a freshman in 1988 and knew several of the guys who played on the ’88 team and other people portrayed in the book. ![]() I grew up in Odessa and graduated from Permian High School. ![]()
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