With Chatwin : Portrait of a Writer

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With Chatwin : Portrait of a Writer

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ISBN: 9780099733713
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Authors: Susannah Clapp
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 1998-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Travel, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Biography
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Few writers have had as many distinct lives as Bruce Chatwin and few have been as compelling in person as in print. Chatwin was a traveller, an aesthete and an anthropologist. In his twenties he was a star at Sotheby's; in his thirties he was a star at The Sunday Times . A solitary man and a socialite; he was always exotic. He became famous as the person who reinvented travel-writing and when he died in 1989, aged 48, he had published six strikingly varied books.Susannah Clapp's book is not a biography, but collects her own memories of Chatwin and those of his friends, acquaintances and colleagues, with the aim of producing a chronology of the author's life and, more important, of illuminating particular fields of interest. This is not merely a celebratory volume, but a investigatory one, illustrated with photographs of and by Bruce Chatwin.
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