The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football
By Stuart Stevens
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Fathers, sons, and sports are enduring themes of American literature. Here, in this fresh and moving account, a son returns to his native Mississippi 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. In the fall of 2012, after working on a presidential campaign that suffered a devastating loss, Stuart Stevens, having turned sixty, realized that he and his ninety-five-year-old father had spent little time together for decades. His solution: a season of attending 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 time. 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 Season is a powerful story of parents and children and the importance of taking a backward glance together while you still can.
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Summary
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A New York Times bestseller
A 2016 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize Longlist Selection
An Amazon Best Book of the Month for Biographies and Memoirs
Fathers, sons, and sports are enduring themes of American literature. Here, in this fresh and moving account, a son returns to his native Mississippi 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.
In the fall of 2012, after working on a presidential campaign that suffered a devastating loss, Stuart Stevens, having turned sixty, realized that he and his ninety-five-year-old father had spent little time together for decades. His solution: a season of attending 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 time. 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 Season is a powerful story of parents and children and the importance of taking a backward glance together while you still can.
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Editorial Reviews
Reviews
Reviews
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A memoir worth remembering.
- As memoirs go, few would choose to memorialize their past through a father/son hookup to attend all the football games of their alma mater, Ole Miss, especially when the father is 95. But attend they do, and we are entertained and moved by the 60 plus years that have represented the son’s growing up, much of it through his football camaraderie with his father. Mr. Stevens has seamlessly knitted the past with the present joys of sitting in a stadium with the obligatory hotdog and drink while witnessing their beloved team play for the gold. A listener doesn’t have to love football to thoroughly enjoy this book, for the thrust of its premise is how a father and son relationship can keep growing even into both their senior years. This is a thoroughly enjoyable and light listening experience that will put smiles on your face. – Odin Roark
Author
Author Bio: Stuart Stevens
Stuart Stevens is the author of several books, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Esquire, and Outside, among other publications. He has written extensively for television shows, including Northern Exposure, Commander in Chief, and K Street. For twenty-five years, he was the lead strategist and media consultant for some of the nation’s toughest political campaigns. He attended Colorado College; Pembroke College, Oxford; Middlebury College; and University of California at Los Angeles film school. He is a former fellow of the American Film Institute.
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download, CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Runtime: | 5.58 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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