在池塘 生活散文 At the Pond : Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies Pond

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 198 pages

Publisher:Daunt Books

Imprint:Daunt Books

ISBN:9781911547396

Published:20 Jun 2019

Weight:198g

Dimensions:156 x 140 x 14 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在汉普斯特德希斯东北边缘的一条绿荫小径上，有一块牌子：仅供女士使用。这就是肯伍德女士浴池。

在树冠的掩映下，漂浮在如丝般柔滑的池水中，很容易让人忘记自己身处伦敦市中心。在炎热的天气里，成千上万从八岁到八十多岁的游泳者都会在附近的草地上晒太阳，然后等待着下水游泳。夏去秋来，冬去春来，池塘仍有许多戴着安全帽的常客，他们中的许多人已经在这里游泳几十年了。

在这些文章中，我们从曾在池塘游泳的作家的视角看到了池塘。埃丝特-弗洛伊德（Esther Freud）描述了在四季中游泳的生命感悟；卢-斯托帕德（Lou Stoppard）向打破坚冰的冬泳者致敬；玛格丽特-德拉布尔（Margaret Drabble）回顾了她年轻时在汉普斯特德的黄金岁月；沙琳-张（Sharlene Teo）初次来到这里；内尔-弗里泽尔（Nell Frizzell）分享了从她的黄色救生员独木舟上看到的景色。

《在池塘》将个人回忆与对该地历史的反思结合在一起，历经岁月和季节的变迁，记录了 14 位当代作家对这个独特地方的印象。

Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies' Bathing Pond.

Floating in the Pond's silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it's easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers from eight to eighty-plus can be found waiting to take a dip before sunbathing in the adjoining meadow. As summer turns to autumn and then winter, the Pond is still visited by a large number of hardy regulars in high-vis hats, many of whom have been swimming here for decades.

In these essays we see the Pond from the perspectives of writers who have swum there. Esther Freud describes the life-affirming sensation of swimming through the seasons; Lou Stoppard pays tribute to the winter swimmers who break the ice; Margaret Drabble reflects on the golden Hampstead days of her youth; Sharlene Teo visits for the first time; and Nell Frizzell shares the view from her yellow lifeguard's canoe.

Combining personal reminiscence with reflections on the history of the place over the years and through the changing seasons, At the Pond captures fourteen contemporary writers' impressions of this unique place.

作者简介

Margaret Drabble是《海女士》、《七姐妹》、《胡椒蛾》和《针眼》等小说的作者。 她撰写了阿诺德·贝内特和安格斯·威尔逊的传记，并且是《牛津英语文学手册》第五版和第六版的编辑。 由于她对当代英国文学的贡献，她于 2008 年被授予大英帝国女爵士称号。

SOPHIE MACKINTOSH是《Blue Ticket》和《The Water Cure》的作者，该书荣获 2019 年贝蒂·特拉斯克奖，并入围 2018 年曼布克奖长名单。 2016年，她获得了White Review短篇小说奖和Virago/Stylist短篇小说竞赛。 她曾在《纽约时报》、《Elle》和《Granta》等杂志上发表文章。

Ava Wong Davies 是一位居住在伦敦的剧作家和戏剧评论家。 她是《The Stage》和《Exeunt》杂志的定期撰稿人，也是《gal-dem》的每月戏剧专栏作家，并于 2018 年荣获《星期日泰晤士报》哈罗德·霍布森批评奖。 作为一名剧作家，她的作品曾在 The Yard、The Bunker、Theatre Deli、VAULT Festival 和 The North Wall 等地展出。 她的处女作《我仍将是完整的》（当你把我撕成两半时）被编为克里斯·索内克斯于 2019 年 11 月在邦克剧院上演的第二季的一部分。她是苏荷剧院作家实验室 18/19 届的校友，也是 布什剧院的新兴作家。

Amy Key 是一位居住在伦敦的诗人和作家。 她是两部诗集《Luxe》和《Isn't Forever》的作者，该诗集被诗歌图书协会通配符选择奖和《卫报》、《新政治家》和《泰晤士报》评为年度至佳图书。 她的诗歌被广泛出版并编入选集，她的文章发表在《池塘边》、《格兰塔》、《诗歌评论》等刊物上。

Margaret Drabble is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. She has written biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson, and she is the editor of the fifth and sixth editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

SOPHIE MACKINTOSH is the author of Blue Ticket and The Water Cure, which won the 2019 Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. In 2016 she won the White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago/Stylist short story competition. She has been published in The New York Times, Elle, and Granta, among others.

Ava Wong Davies is a playwright and theatre critic based in London. She is a regular contributor to The Stage and Exeunt Magazine, is a monthly theatre columnist for gal-dem, and in 2018 won the Sunday Times Harold Hobson award for criticism. As a playwright, her work has been showcased at The Yard, The Bunker, Theatre Deli, VAULT Festival, and The North Wall. Her debut play i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) was programmed as part of Chris Sonnex's second season at The Bunker Theatre in November 2019. She is an alumna of the Soho Theatre Writers Lab 18/19 and one of the Bush Theatre's Emerging Writers.

Amy Key is a poet and writer based in London. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Luxe and Isn't Forever, which was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice and a Book of the Year in the Guardian, New Statesman and The Times. Her poems have been widely published and anthologised, and her essays have appeared in At the Pond, Granta, the Poetry Review and elsewhere.