41-Love: A Memoir (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781640094765)

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 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.

Author: Scarlett Thomas
ISBN-10: 1640094768
ISBN-13: 9781640094765
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2022
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2021 pg. 12
Publishers Weekly 09/27/2021
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2021
Booklist 11/01/2021 pg. 16
Library Journal 11/19/2021 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 01/04/2022