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Pondlife
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From the author of The Savage God, a unique memoir of growing old, and a lesson in not going gently into that good nightThe 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
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| Author | Al Alvarez |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9781408841020 |
| Item Height | 1.9 |
| Item Length | 19.9 |
| Item Width | 13.1 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Paperbacks |
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