41-love

A Memoir

41-love
Scarlett Thomas
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Hardback
h218 x 148mm - 384pg
4 Jan 2022 US
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9781640094765
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A darkly funny sports memoir about a mid-life crisis, exercise addiction, tennis, and how to grow up when you really, really don' t want toAt forty-one, Scarlett Thomas was a successful novelist and a senior academic. She' d quit smoking, gotten healthier, settled down in a lovely house with a wonderful partner. She' d had all the therapy. Then her beloved dog died. Her parents started to get sick right around the time she realized she was never going to be a mother herself. For the first time in her life, maintaining her ideal weight had become nearly impossible. She was supposed to grow up, but she didn' t know how. So instead she decided to regress, to go back to the thing she' d loved best as a child but had inexplicably abandoned- tennis. Thomas knows she' s not the only person to have wondered whether throwing enough money and time and passion at something can make your dream come true. 41-Love is heartbreaking but frequently funny as Thomas finds she' ll do anything to win-almost anything.
"As a longtime fan of tennis and good writing, I felt like Thomas wrote this memoir just for me . . . There' s lively writing about tennis, but also about competitiveness and emotional toughness, and finding oneself later in life. " -Emily Burack, Alma "The author' s honesty is what makes this memoir appealing, and Thomas' insights into the world of amateur tennis are compelling. " -Booklist "Intensity marks Thomas' s beautiful memoir, which is a meticulously detailed, often darkly funny account of her hot pursuit of a dream deferred . . . Smart, clever and very suspenseful . . . With Thomas serving as narrator for the multi-layered, no-holds-barred odyssey of her ascent into middle age, she emerges as a top seed and the very best of them all. " -Shelf Awareness "Thomas (Oligarchy) serves an ace of a memoir with this trenchant account about the pains of getting older . . . This window into midlife desire is cathartic, amusing reading for anyone who' s wanted desperately to win. " -Publishers Weekly "What, really, is a trophy? Scarlett Thomas' is covered in spikes, and may also be radioactive, but she plunks it down defiantly in this addictive memoir. A bracing statement on athleticism as continual work in progress, the limits of bodies, and the go-for-broke ambition to be exceptional. " -Vikki Warner, author of Tenemental: Adventures of a Reluctant Landlady
Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. She is the author of Oligarchy, The Seed Collectors, PopCo, and The End of Mr. Y. Her previous novels, including The End of Mr. Y, PopCo, and The Seed Collectors, have developed a cult following and sold more than half a million books worldwide. Her work has been translated into twenty-five languages. Scarlett is a professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Kent in the U. K.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781640094765
Published: 4 Jan 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Counterpoint
Publisher: Counterpoint
Format: Hardback
Height: 218mm
Width: 148mm
Pages: 384

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