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Swimming with My Father: A Memoir [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Tim Jeal (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 198 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; illustrated edition edition (18 Mar 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571221009
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571221004
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 858,798 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Terribly moving and terribly funny, often at the same time . . . A hugely enjoyable read.'


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5.0 out of 5 stars Punching with Mother, 30 Mar 2004
By Mr. J. L. Gordon (South-East London, U.K.) - See all my reviews
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I have seldom read so poignant yet entertaining a study of just a couple of people who happened to be someone's parents. True, they are both of them unusual characters, certainly by today's standards, probably even by their own. She a former opera singer blood-related to the Plantagenets who married disastrously below her; he a cranky alternative Christian (unlike most of that sort a vegetarian and pacifist, though the pressures of the war,not to speak of having a royally blooded general as his father in law drove him finally to enlist) The story could in some ways be summed up in any three or four of the many anecdotes with which the book abounds. Two that spring to mind are: how his mother told the author to go all out to win his boxing match at Prep school, while his father gently (always gently) deplored his having to box at all, though he was not decisive enough to insist that his son did not box in the first place. Second, the final anecdote, of how they (well, Tim actually) buried the wrong cat. Besides being amusing in itself this story brilliantly picks out the contrasting life-views of these two amazing people. If Jeal had taken the option of writing about his parents as fictional characters, nobody would have believed him. But the writing is so measured and precise that it is quite apparent throughout that this is one hundred percent truth, that perhaps it has a truth beyond the merely factual. Thoroughly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Autobiographical Gem, 25 Jul 2004
By Christopher McIntosh (Bremen, Germany) - See all my reviews
This book is a rare treat. It had me riveted from beginning to end. An unusually honest, intimate, touching, memoir in the form of a series of sharply focused reminiscences from different phases of the author's life and relationship with his family. Tim Jeal is a tremendously engaging narrator. One feels privileged to be taken into the world of his past and introduced to his remarkable, eccentric father, his mother - in her own way equally unusual - and their often tense relationship. He writes poignantly about family dramas, large and small, tearful as well as funny episodes. At times I laughed out loud. At other times I felt nostalgic for the England he grew up in and which now seems so remote. Definitely a book I shall return to.
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