Offseason is narrated by a self-described 'sexually frigid, spiritually sick, and morally warped' PhD dropout who arrives at an all-girls boarding school in a remote coastal tourist town to teach English.
While manically lecturing her students about Charles Dickens's Bleak House, she veers from her syllabus to highlight the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin, the impact of the Holocaust and the Soviet Union on her family, and the crucial distinctions between ephebophilia and pedophilia.
Obsessed with her own trauma and the trauma - real or imagined - of everyone around her, her quest to escape the past is undermined by her inability to ever stop talking about it.
Savage, hilarious and profound, it marks the arrival of a truly original literary talent.
'To let us see the world reinvented through the eyes of a narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar, to have us laugh at what is painful and feel compassion when the narrator is lighting firecracker sentences to get us to look elsewhere-this is the eternal promise of the literary first novel. In Offseason, Avigayl Sharp fulfils that promise, amply, and with art and wit' - Michael Chabon, author of Moonglow
| ISBN: | 9781399637008 |
| Publication date: | 7th May 2026 |
| Author: | Avigayl Sharp |
| Publisher: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Primary Genre | Humorous Fiction |
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Offseason is narrated by a self-described 'sexually frigid, spiritually sick, and morally warped' PhD dropout who arrives at an all-girls boarding school in a remote coastal tourist town to teach English.
While manically lecturing her students about Charles Dickens's Bleak House, she veers from her syllabus to highlight the childhood maltreatment of her beloved Iosif Stalin, the impact of the Holocaust and the Soviet Union on her family, and the crucial distinctions between ephebophilia and pedophilia.
Obsessed with her own trauma and the trauma - real or imagined - of everyone around her, her quest to escape the past is undermined by her inability to ever stop talking about it.
Savage, hilarious and profound, it marks the arrival of a truly original literary talent.
'To let us see the world reinvented through the eyes of a narrator who makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar, to have us laugh at what is painful and feel compassion when the narrator is lighting firecracker sentences to get us to look elsewhere-this is the eternal promise of the literary first novel. In Offseason, Avigayl Sharp fulfils that promise, amply, and with art and wit' - Michael Chabon, author of Moonglow
Offseason features in the following genres: General Fiction, Humorous Fiction
Offseason is available in Hardback, Paperback
Offseason was written by Avigayl Sharp and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion
Offseason has 240 pages
£17.09
