{"product_id":"the-season-helen-garner-9780593702147","title":"The Season: A Fan's Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the beloved master of Australian letters Helen Garner comes a brand new work of nonfiction, exploring boyhood, football, and the quotidian joys of being a grandparent.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHelen Garner is one of the most \"prodigiously gifted\" writers of our time (\u003ci\u003eNew 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\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. Here we find Garner rejoicing in the later years of her life, utterly content and unafraid to bask in it--a bright, generously funny, exuberant book from one of our great living writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Garner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 059370214X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593702147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Helen Garner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46640942153983,"sku":"9780593702147","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89e095f2-1740-4d7c-8601-27c412602d6e.jpg?v=1740670896","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-season-helen-garner-9780593702147","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}