Michael Lewis

The Blind Side

Evolution of a Game

With a new afterword

“Lewis has such a gift for storytelling ... he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times

It’s not a jock book. It’s not a sociology book. It’s a
storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good.”—Jay Hancock, Baltimore Sun

One day Michael Oher will be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he 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 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 itself into a game in which 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.

“Shrewder than ... many so-called football insiders who can’t see the forest for the trees.”—Allen Barra, Washington Post

The author of the bestsellers Liar’s Poker, The New New Thing, and Moneyball, Michael Lewis writes regularly for the New York Times Magazine and Bloomberg News. He lives in Berkeley, California.