The latest novel by Davide Puccini is part of the nowadays Bildungsroman genre or training novel. The sea season (Giuliano Ladolfi Editore) accompanies, in fact, the growth of the protagonist Renato from early adolescence to the threshold of youth, in relation to a specific historical-environmental context, through a succession of significant events and intimate psychological and psychological educational-pedagogical purposes. The title, while emphasizing the primary role played in spite of himself by the sea, which intrigues the moods and places of a community after World War II to today, also alludes to the most unstable and liquid season of the human age, in which experiences and meetings acquire a decisive impact.

The city in which the daily heroes of this novel move (known since the beginning of the nineteenth century of a very important iron and steel center, whose failures on the environment and on the health of workers touch closely the childhood of the protagonist) is Piombino, which was already the background to the events much more mysterious than the previous novel by Puccini The book and the soul, where he was born and lives the author, from whose beating heart, which is Piazza Bovio, in the clearest days, you can to distinguish with the naked eye all the islands of the Tuscan Archipelago and the "finger" of Corsica, as they do, in a beautiful, airy and detailed descriptive page of the novel, the young Renato and his more adult friend Marino, whose name could not better highlight its close link with the sea. The protagonists of the novel are just a serious boy and a scholar and an adult, who devotes himself to the art of poaching, until it is supplanted by more sophisticated techniques, and then move on to other illegal activities because of which you take a few months of jail.