Name: Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal (en Inglés)
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Author: Alvarez, Al
ISBN: 9781408841020

portada Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal (en Inglés)

Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Al Alvarez

Editorial

Bloomsbury Paperbacks

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.8 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781408841020

Categorías

Irlanda
Reino unido
Poesía
Memorias
Literatura: historia y crítica

Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal (en Inglés)

Al Alvarez (Autor) · Bloomsbury Paperbacks · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal (en Inglés)"

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.