I spent about three summers on the tournament circuit.” I was probably playing 20 tournaments a year. And then by the time I was 11, I was playing the full-time tournament circuit, which starts with a few Easter tournaments and runs the entire summer. So by 10 I was playing in a number of tournaments.
Once you’re showing aptitude people want to capitalize on it. “But I was really good at doubles because that was where I could play tennis. Because in America you should do it alone and you shouldn’t enjoy it, which is sort of the story of my singles life. Of course, doubles doesn’t count so much in America. I always loved doubles because I wasn’t so panic-stricken. And I either won or I was runner-up in them, and I won doubles. One at the Tiburon Club, one at the Belvedere Club, and one in San Rafael at Albert Park. We’d get there at nine and leave at five. “1 did lessons, and it just sort of slowly became my life. Really tiny and scrappy, and I could play all day. I started taking club lessons, and 1 was always real athletic. I started playing when I was about eight. It was where the rich kids played and where the better pro was. I eventually had a junior membership there just like Rosie does. The Belvedere Tennis Club was where you played if you were doing a lot better. But it was sort of the club where the middle-class people that really populated Tiburon when I was a child played. It eventually became the Tiburon Peninsula Club. “We belonged to what was called the Rec Center in Tiburon. I had known that Lamott had played tournament tennis as a child.
In Crooked Little Heart Lamott does brilliantly what she has always done well. She has always written spacious, lushly described passages. She has always managed to about tragedy with humor.
Is Luther an “angel unawares” or a child molester?Īnne Lamott has always brought us characters who seem more born than made, who step off the page and mix in our lives. Menace drifts into Rosie’s life in the form of an odd, shambling fellow named Luther, who follows Rosie from one tournament to another. Scrawny, flatchested Rosie and her best friend Simone, a nubile and lonely little sexpot, play doubles on the state tournament tennis circuit. James, Rosie’s stepfather, is a goofy, sweet-hearted, mildly successful writer. Her widowed mother is remarried she’s stopped drinking. Lamott’s fifth novel brings back Rosie, the protagonist of Lamott’s 1983 Rosie.
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