Set in the 1950s, when Ward Just's narrator, Wilson Ravan, is just 19, AN UNFINISHED SEASON traces a series of events in the lives of Wilson and his father, Teddy. Teddy owns a printing company threatened by union members striking for strikers. Young Wilson has a summer job at a local newspaper, where for the first time in his life he mixes with working-class colleagues and begins to see that the world in which he has grown up isn't quite as morally coherent as he'd thought. At the same time, he falls in love with a debutante named Aurora, whose father is hiding a shattering secret from his own past. The story of innocence lost but a measure of truth found, AN UNFINISHED SEASON is Just's 14th novel, and takes place in the Midwest, near Chicago, where he himself grew up. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.
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