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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.
