{"product_id":"de-bono-thinking-book-bono-9780816018956","title":"De Bono Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHere's the paradox: your body becomes steadily more troublesome just at that point when the world, which you are soon to leave, becomes sweeter, more poignant, more beautiful, more desirable.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn athlete in his youth, Alvarez, now in his eighties, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns funny, poetic and indignant, \u003ci\u003ePondlife\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50059205509393,"sku":"CIN0816018952A","price":6.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50369083375889,"sku":"CIN0816018952G","price":6.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50914016395537,"sku":"CIN0816018952VG","price":4.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0816018952.jpg?v=1751265157","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/de-bono-thinking-book-bono-9780816018956","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}