The acclaimed author of Monkey Grip and The Children's Bach is back: this time she turns her razor-sharp writer's eye to her 16-year-old grandson's footy team.
Garner has found international acclaim in her 80s, with the recent reissue of The Children's Bach and This House of Grief in the US."Beyond a certain age women become invisible in public spaces," Helen Garner wrote in her 2016 essay, The Insults of Age.
" made me feel lucky to be alive … I saw that it's a kind of poetry, an ancient common language between strangers, a set of shared hopes and rules and images, of arcane rites played out at regular intervals before the citizenry. It revives us. It sustains us." On one level, The Season is a book about football and the distinctive Victorian reverence for the game. Garner makes much of the sport as a social ritual: where other social institutions like religion have eroded, football persists, offering a sense of community, connection and belonging.But her latest book is also a portrait of youthful masculinity.
The acclaimed author imagines what life will be like for our descendants if we do nothing about climate change in his latest novel. Footy steps in to give her purpose and lift her out of her low moments. Every morning, she flips straight to the footy pages, revelling in the poetic language she finds there.
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