Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal (Alvarez Al)(Paperback)

Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal (Alvarez Al)(Paperback)

Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal (Alvarez Al)(Paperback)

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The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best part of his life Al Alvarez--poet, critic, novelist, rock-climber and poker player--has swum in them almost daily.

An athlete in his youth, Alvarez, now in his eighties, chronicles what it is to grow old with humor and fierce honesty--from his relentlessly nagging ankle which makes daily life a struggle, to infuriating bureaucratic battles with the council to keep his disabled person's Blue Badge, the devastating effects of a stroke, and the salvation he finds in the three Ss--Swimming, Sex and Sleep.

As Alvarez swims in the ponds he considers how it feels when you begin to miss that person you used to be--to miss yourself. Swimming is his own private form of protest against the onslaught of time; proof to others, and himself, that he's not yet

Produkt Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal (Alvarez Al)(Paperback) má EAN kód 9781408841020.

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