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Item Details
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WITH CHATWIN
PORTRAIT OF A WRITER |
| By: |
Susannah Clapp |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1448112443 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781448112449 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
31 March, 2012 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Bruce 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". 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
1 Illustrations, unspecified |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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