The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football - Rilegato

Stevens, Stuart

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ISBN 10: 0385353022 ISBN 13: 9780385353021

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2015

Riassunto

Fathers, sons, and sports are enduring themes of American literature. Here, in this fresh and moving account, a son returns to his native South to spend a special autumn with his ninety-five-year-old dad, sharing the unique joys, disappointments, and life lessons of Saturdays with their beloved Ole Miss Rebels.

After growing up in Jackson, Stuart Stevens built a successful career as a writer and political consultant. But in the fall of 2012, not long after he turned sixty, the presidential campaign he’d worked on suffered a painful defeat. Grappling with a profound sense of loss and mortality, he began asking himself some tough questions, not least about his relationship with his father. The two of them had spent little time together for decades. He made a resolution: to invite his father to attend a season of Ole Miss football games together, as they’d done when college football provided a way for his father to guide him through childhood—and to make sense of the troubled South of the 1960s. Now, driving to and from the games, and cheering from the stands, they take stock of their lives as father and son, and as individuals, reminding themselves of their unique, complicated, precious bond.

Poignant and full of heart, but also irreverent and often hilarious, The Last Seasonis a powerful story of parents and children and of the importance of taking a backward glance together while you still can.

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Informazioni sull'autore

STUART STEVENS grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. He has worked in many political campaigns in the United States and abroad. The author of five previous books, he has also written extensively for television, includingNorthern Exposure. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, Outside, andThe Atlantic, among others. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385353022
• ISBN 13: 9780385353021
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 205
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