{"product_id":"the-season-a-fan-s-story-isbn-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":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233739813093,"sku":"NP9780593702147","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593702147.jpg?v=1767741378","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-season-a-fan-s-story-isbn-9780593702147","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}