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From 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.Helen Garner is one of the most "prodigiously gifted" writers of our time (New York Times Book Review), best known for her intricate portraits of "ordinary people in difficult times" (New York Times). In The Season, she trains her keen, journalistic eye on the most difficult time of adolescence. The Season finds Garner and her grandson Amby deep in the throes of a mutual obsession with Australian football—or "footy"—as Amby joins his local club team. From her trademark remove, Garner documents the camaraderie and the competition she witnesses on the the way Amby hangs his head in shame after a botched kick, or admits he tries to "do cool things" when he knows Garner is watching, hoping it'll wind up in her book.The Season is part dispatch on boyhood, documenting the tenderness between young men that so often scurries away under too bright a spotlight, and part love letter to parenthood, as Garner finds herself enmeshed in the community that gathers to watch their boys do battle. Here we find Garner living the best years of her life, utterly content and unafraid to bask in it—a bright, generously funny, escapist book from one of our great living writers.
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"As an invisible witness, she takes an almost anthropological approach to understanding her youngest grandchild and his peers, boys on the cusp of manhood ..."
"The Season is joyful, but there is a carefully woven thread of melancholy running through it, and it is this that gives the book its lovely, old-gold sunset hue ..."
"These domains of fandom are, in Garner's prose, rendered in detail almost as small still-life paintings, full of enchantment."
"Tireless researcher though he proves himself to be, Richardson was unable to prise Matthiessen's files ..."
"[Garner] is working in epic mode in The Season ..."
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