With Chatwin
About this book
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.
Publishers
- Original publisher English: Vintage
- English (North America): Alfred A. Knopf
- English (UK & Commonwealth inc EU ex Canada): Jonathan Cape
- English (US): Putnam
- Dutch: Prometheus
- French: Grasset
- German: Hanser
- German: Fischer
- Italian: Adelphi Edizioni
- Spanish: El Aleph
- Swedish: Brombergs Bokforlag AG
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