{"product_id":"coach-fitz-by-tom-lee-9781925336900","title":"Coach Fitz","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Lee is one of \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald's\u003c\/i\u003e Best Young Australian Novelists 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the strangest and most appealing novels you will read this year!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoach Fitz\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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. - \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711147299052,"sku":"9781925336900","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13694333482873.jpg?v=1754190828","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/coach-fitz-by-tom-lee-9781925336900","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}