{"product_id":"the-season-a-fans-story-helen-garner-hardcover","title":"The Season: A Fan's Story -- Helen Garner, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\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\n\nFrom 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Inclusive and universal, curious and tender, perceptive and wise.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Helen Garner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9\/2\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.92 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.37\" H x 6.14\" L x 0.94\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780593702147\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50564463460656,"sku":"9780593702147","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780593702147.jpg?v=1775124687","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/the-season-a-fans-story-helen-garner-hardcover","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}