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Pondlife. A Swimmer's Journal; Bloomsbury, 2015
- Издатель: Bloomsbury
- ISBN: 9781408841020
EAN: 9781408841020
- Книги: Биографии. Мемуары
- ID: 13677229
Описание
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.
Характеристики (13)
Параметр | Значение |
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Автор(ы) | Alvarez Al |
Год издания | 2015 |
Издатель | Bloomsbury |
ISBN | 9781408841020 |
Обложка | мягкая обложка |
Кол-во страниц | 274 |
Вес | 0.24 |
Тип обложки | мягкая |
Количество книг | 1 |
Количество страниц | 274 |
Издательство | Bloomsbury |
Жанр | биографии и мемуары |
Возрастное ограничение | 16+ |
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