Ebook {Epub PDF} Pondlife: A Swimmers Journal by Al Álvarez

 · Al Alvarez, Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal Albert Alvarez (A or Al Alvarez) is known mainly as a poetry critic, anthologist and novelist, but none of this would be apparent from this recent journal, which deals with his daily routine of swimming in the Hampstead and Highgate ponds/5(35).  · Pondlife: A swimmers Journal by Al Alvarez. Writer Al Alvarez, perhaps best known for his study of suicied The Savage God, which I remember reading at age 19 or 20, has just published a book about his regular swims at Hampstead Heath Ponds. I haven’t read it yet but will.  · 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 www.doorway.ru Alvarez .

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. Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal by Al Alvarez. Lucy Denyer. Sunday February 10 , am, The Sunday Times. Lucy Denyer. Sunday February 10 , am, The Sunday Times. item 1 Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal by Alvarez, Al The Cheap Fast Free Post 1 - Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal by Alvarez, Al The Cheap Fast Free Post. AU $ Free postage.

A l Alvarez's swimmer's diary, describing his all-year-round swimming in the outdoor ponds on Hampstead Heath, north London, is a marvellous book. Even the title Pondlife is spot-on: unlaboured. Pondlife: A swimmers Journal by Al Alvarez Writer Al Alvarez, perhaps best known for his study of suicied The Savage God, which I remember reading at age 19 or 20, has just published a book about his regular swims at Hampstead Heath Ponds. 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.