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'A beautifully crafted and accomplished debut' - Michael Donkor
For ten months of the year, two men are drawn to adjacent seats in a stadium, carrying the burdens of life and pouring all their hopes into their beloved but ailing team.
Fatherless and fretful, the Young Man is trying to nurture a precarious new relationship and to find his place in the world. The Old Man, an increasingly isolated carer for his fading wife, knows he has little left to look forward to. Neither fan is a comfortable talker. However, in a slow-motion play of nods, silences and guarded chats, they strike up a tentative friendship across the generational gap.
Told through thirty-eight chapters - one for each game of the Premier League campaign - Season is a lyrical, hypnotic and gently uplifting study of loneliness and modern masculinity. About much more than football, it celebrates the healing, unifying and maddening role of ritualised sport in the lives of ordinary people.
Industry Reviews
'A beautifully crafted and accomplished debut - an emotionally rich and formally fresh examination of masculinity and alienation that deserves a wide readership' Michael Donkor
'A highly accomplished novel written with gut-wrenching, net-busting depth. It is a book that effortlessly captures the touching intergenerational bond of two loyal football supporters. Every word counts; everything means something. This is so much more than a novel for fans of the so-called 'beautiful game;' this is a winner of a story in every way that all kinds of readers will inhale and remember long after the final whistle' Ashley Hickson-Lovence
'The world of professional football is usually a graveyard of literary aspiration, but GeorgeHarrison has found a way of using the match-day experience as a prism through which to examine the lives of the people watching on from the stands. Well observed, neatly handled, and full of good things' D.J. Taylor
'George Harrison skilfully evokes the unique and valuable role football plays in so many people's lives. He captures how moments of sporting euphoria and heartbreak can briefly but beautifully blot out relationship, family and work fears and the depths of anxiety, gratitude and delight that exist beyond male inarticulacy. A brilliant, original and necessary novel' Nicolas Padamsee
ISBN: 9781785634147
ISBN-10: 1785634143
Published: 9th January 2025
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Eye Books
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 13.8 x 20.5 x 2.4
Weight (kg): 0.33
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