Season
Shortlisted for the Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction
Seiten
2025
Lightning (Verlag)
978-1-78563-414-7 (ISBN)
Lightning (Verlag)
978-1-78563-414-7 (ISBN)
The Young Man and the Old Man – two fanatics in adjacent seats – form a slow but steady friendship over the course of a football season. As their beloved club lurches towards relegation – and as they pour ever more of their hopes into the ailing team – both men come to realise how much they have in common
SHORTLISTED: Nero Book Awards
SHORTLISTED: East Anglian Book Awards
‘A beautiful novel about the beautiful game’ Jonathan Pearce
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.
SHORTLISTED: Nero Book Awards
SHORTLISTED: East Anglian Book Awards
‘A beautiful novel about the beautiful game’ Jonathan Pearce
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.
George Harrison is a writer based in Norwich. He has worked as a freelance editor and ghostwriter on an eclectic mix of non-fiction books; his editorial back catalogue ranges from the memoirs of a professional golfer to true-crime stories and a book about the life of a South African spy. Despite having grown up in the West Country, he is a lifelong Norwich City fan and is fortunate now to live just a short walk away from Carrow Road. He wrote Season, his debut novel, while attached to the Escalator Talent Development Programme at the National Centre for Writing.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.12.2024 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 326 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78563-414-3 / 1785634143 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78563-414-7 / 9781785634147 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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