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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: With Chatwin
• Author: Susannah Clapp
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780099733713
• ISBN: 0099733714
• ID: 04019962
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 181 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1998

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