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    by Al Alvarez
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    - A Climber's Life on the Edge
    by Al Alvarez
    £10.99

    Written by the author of "Poker and The Biggest Game in Town", this book gives a portrait of the climbing legend Mo Anthoine. It is suitable for fans of adrenaline sports.

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    - A Swimmer's Journal
    by Al Alvarez
    £9.49

    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.

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    - A Study of Suicide
    by Al Alvarez
    £13.49

    An intelligent and sympathetic analysis of one of the true taboos of modern life.

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