Title: Swimming with my father
First published: 2004
Description: "Swimming with My Father is a piercingly honest account of growing up in the convention-bound 1950s. Tim Jeal spent his childhood torn between a worldly mother and a father who was a Christian mystic, conscientious objector, and devoted swimmer of England's rivers." "From his own embarrassing schoolboy meeting with T. S. Eliot, to his father's rapt involvement with the natural world, this memoir is by turns lyrical, poignant and gloriously funny. Part tribute to a remarkable man, part portrait of a vanished Britain, its underlying theme is what makes us who we are and how time can shift the roles of child and parent."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Family, Fathers and sons, English Authors, Rivers, Authors, English, Childhood and youth, Biography, Swimming
Places: England
People: Tim Jeal
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR6060.E2 Z468 2004