{"product_id":"the-season-a-fans-story-hardcover","title":"The Season: A Fan's Story - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelen Garner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHELEN GARNER\u003c\/b\u003e writes novels, stories, screenplays, and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include \u003ci\u003eMonkey Grip, The Children's Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino, The Spare Room, The First Stone, This House of Grief, Everywhere I Look, \u003c\/i\u003eand her diaries \u003ci\u003eYellow Notebook, One Day I'll Remember This, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e How to End a Story\u003c\/i\u003e, published in the United States as the single-volume \u003ci\u003eHow to End a Story\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9.37 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51979045044525,"sku":"9780593702147","price":25.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Ft3rCy20nD9780593702147.webp?v=1775818651","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-season-a-fans-story-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}