The Last Season

The Last Season

By Stuart Stevens
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“It’s Ole Miss, it’s nuts, it’s outrageous, it’s got depth and emotion, and it’s one of the best father-son books I’ve read in years. ‘Hotty Toddy’ is the only phrase you need to know to love this book.”

Pat Conroy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of South of Broad

A 2016 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize  Longlist Selection

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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  1. Odin
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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

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