With Chatwin : Portrait of a Writer
Author(s): Susannah Clapp
Pre-Loved Books | Travel | Biography, Memoir
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 and a socialite; he was always and 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Gardners Books
- : 0.228
- : 01 January 1998
- : 1.7 Centimeters X 14.3 Centimeters X 20.4 Centimeters
- : 01 September 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Susannah Clapp
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 920
- : very good
- : 256