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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 chronicles what it is to grow old with humour 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 beaten.
By turns funny, poetic and indignant, Pondlife is a meditation on love, the importance of life's small pleasures and, above all, a lesson in not going gently in to that good night.
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'A beautiful unfolding of a story, told in deceptively simple prose but with a great power to move' Sunday Times
'The adrenalin still flows in lively extracts' The Times
'A marvellous book... it has no business to be as invigorating and absorbing - its success is against the odds' Observer
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 chronicles what it is to grow old with humour 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 beaten.
By turns funny, poetic and indignant, Pondlife is a meditation on love, the importance of life's small pleasures and, above all, a lesson in not going gently in to that good night.
_____________________
'A beautiful unfolding of a story, told in deceptively simple prose but with a great power to move' Sunday Times
'The adrenalin still flows in lively extracts' The Times
'A marvellous book... it has no business to be as invigorating and absorbing - its success is against the odds' Observer
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781408841020 |
| ISBN-10: | 1408841029 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Alvarez, Al |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Maße: | 196 x 131 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Al Alvarez |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 16.06.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,233 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781408841020 |
| ISBN-10: | 1408841029 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Alvarez, Al |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Maße: | 196 x 131 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Al Alvarez |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 16.06.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,233 kg |
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