With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer

Clapp, Susannah

ISBN 10: 0099733714 / ISBN 13: 9780099733713

Published by Vintage, London, UK, 1998

About this Item

246 pages. A very clean, very tidy copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer
• Publisher: Vintage, London, UK
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099733714
• ISBN 13: 9780099733713
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good ++

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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.