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41-love : on addictions, tennis, and refusing to grow up / Scarlett Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Scarlett, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomas, Scarlett.
- Novelists, English--21st century--Biography.
- Novelists, English.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages.)
- Edition:
- First hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- Forty-one-love
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 to At 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 tim 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.
- Contents:
- The Indoor Tennis Centre p. 7
- Leicester p. 58
- Ragdale Hall p. 83
- The Indoor Tennis Centre Open p. 105
- Wolverhampton p. 127
- Bath p. 148
- Sutton p. 183
- The Canterbury Open p. 213
- Nottingham p. 257
- The Walmer Open p. 314
- Seniors' Wimbledon p. 336.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781640094772
- 1640094776
- Publisher Number:
- 40030951053
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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