{"product_id":"9780593702147","title":"The Season: A Fan's Story","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE • A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 ∙ A\u003ci\u003e LITHUB\u003c\/i\u003e FAVORITE BOOK OF 2025\u003cbr\u003eFrom the beloved master of Australian letters Helen Garner comes a brand new work of nonfiction, exploring boyhood, football, and the quotidian joys of family life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Inclusive and universal, curious and tender, perceptive and wise.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Garner is one of the most “prodigiously gifted” writers of our time (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), best known for her intricate portraits of “ordinary people in difficult times” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). In \u003ci\u003eThe Season\u003c\/i\u003e, she trains her keen, journalistic eye on the most difficult time of all: adolescence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGarner and her grandson Amby are deep in the throes of a shared obsession with Australian football—or “footy”—as Amby advances into his local club’s Under-16s. From her trademark remove, Garner documents the camaraderie and the competition on the field: the bracing nights of training, the endurance of pain, the growth of a gaggle of laughing boys into a formidable, focused team.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Season \u003c\/i\u003eis part dispatch on boyhood, chronicling the tenderness between young men that so often scurries away under too bright a spotlight, and part love letter to parenthood and family, as Garner becomes enmeshed in the community that gathers to watch their boys do battle. \u003ci\u003eThe Season\u003c\/i\u003e finds Garner rejoicing in the later years of her life, surprised to discover their riches—a bright, generously funny, exuberant book from one of our great living writers.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42585442353213,"sku":"9780593702147","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780593702147_p0.jpg?v=1771579524","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780593702147","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}