Swimming with My Father

Swimming with My Father

by TimJeal (Author)

Synopsis

This is a tender portrait of childhood, growing up, and of a father who was uniquely English eccentric. From his own embarrassing schoolboy meeting with T.S. Eliot to his father's struggle with Parkinson's, it is a lovingly composed, honest exploration of the past.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 18 Mar 2004

ISBN 10: 0571221009
ISBN 13: 9780571221004

Author Bio
Tim Jeal, an acclaimed novelist and biographer, is the author of Livingstone, which was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, and Baden Powell, described in the Literary Review as 'one of the most important biographies of recent years'. A former winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, he is currently writing a life of Henry Morton Stanley.