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Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team
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Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team Paperback - 2006

by Carlton Stowers

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A poignant story of a small town and its unwavering support--through thick and a lot of thin--of a six-man high school football team in Penelope, Texas, this is a warm and revealing slice of life in the American heartland.

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Down Farm Road 308, an hour's drive south of Dallas, amidst sprawling fields of cotton lies a small community--Penelope, Texas (population 211). Here, where the only thriving businesses are the granary and the post office, unless you count the soft-drink machine in front of the fire station, two-time Edgar Award-winning writer Carlton Stowers discovered a special town that came together, not only to support their six-man highschool football team--the Penelope Wolverines--through thick and a lot of thin, but also, and more importantly, each other. "Where Dreams Die Hard" is a warm and revealing portrait of the American heartland--and of one small town's love affair with the team that unites it. "Through his unforgettable depiction of innocence, goodness, loyalty, and friendship...Carlton Stowers gives us a moving portrait of a community that, in the words of one of the Penelope faithful, is like 'stepping into a Norman Rockwell painting.'" (Billie Letts, author of "Where the Heart Is") "High school football in Texas is both sport and religion, and Stowers brilliantly brings this to light in Where Dreams Die Hard." (Jim Dent, author of "The Junction Boys")

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  • Title Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team
  • Author Carlton Stowers
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, NEW YORK
  • Publication date 2006-08-01
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780306814976 / 0306814978
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 6.02 x 0.59 in (20.98 x 15.29 x 1.50 cm)
  • Reading level 1260
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Geographic Orientation: Texas
  • Category Sports & Recreation
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.332

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Citations

  • Kliatt, 05/01/2007, Page 42

About the author

Carlton Stowers has twice won the Edgar Award for the year's Best Fact Crime Book, for Careless Whispers and To the Last Breath. He has written for Sports Illustrated, People, and TV Guide, among other publications. He lives in Texas.

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