{"product_id":"the-season","title":"The Season","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Season\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHelen Garner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780593702147\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePantheon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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 family life.\u003c\/b\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"The Season | Helen Garner | Hardcover | 9780593702147 | New | Memoir 1692490","offer_id":50813425418498,"sku":"1692490","price":42.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61QTBb2BtJL.jpg?v=1792487562","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-season","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}