Al Alvarez

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Pondlife: A Swimmer's JournalPaperback, 16 June 2015

Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal
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Print Length
288 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Date Published
16 Jun 2015
ISBN-10
1408841029
ISBN-13
9781408841020

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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 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.

Product Details

Author:
Al Alvarez
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
16 June 2015
Dimensions:
19.81 x 12.7 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
1408841029
ISBN-13:
9781408841020
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
288
Weight:
181.44 gm

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