Coach Fitz

Author: Tom Lee
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

Tom Lee is one of Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists 2019

One of the strangest and most appealing novels you will read this year!

Tom Lee's first novel is about a young jogger who is in a relationship with an older woman. She is both his coach and his mentor. Coach Fitz, as he calls her, seeks to instil a philosophy of running which combines 'controlled intensity' with a curiosity about places and their histories. A country boy, he is fascinated by the landscapes of the city beaches and parks through which they travel. And he has his own obsessions - with exercise routines, ancestral legacies, outdoor gyms, horse-racing, weather conditions and inner-city eating habits. Then, suddenly, their relationship falls apart, over the issue of sex - and he becomes a coach and mentor in turn, to a young man this time, as he attempts to orchestrate an ideal expression of his emotional, athletic and intellectual urges.

Coach Fitz is an exploration of the outdoor mentality that plays such a dominant role in the Australian psyche. It is remarkable for its observations about landscape and physical exercise, embedded in the training routines and dialogues of the runners. But most of all it is about the emotions and aspirations of youth, and the complications these engender.

'This quirky debut novel by Tom Lee is a wonderfully strange patchwork of psychobabble, self-help buzzwords and technocratic jargon...There's an easy matter-of-factness here, a flatness of affect reminiscent of the work of Gerald Murnane.' - The Saturday Paper

SKU BK-9781925336900
Barcode # 9781925336900
Brand Giramondo Publishing Co
Artist / Author Tom Lee
Shipping Weight 0.5000kg
Shipping Width 0.150m
Shipping Height 0.030m
Shipping Length 0.210m
Assembled Length 21.000m
Assembled Height 3.000m
Assembled Width 15.000m
Type Paperback

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