With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer - Hardcover

Clapp, Susannah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679410333 ISBN 13: 9780679410331

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

Synopsis

A biography of the British aesthete and author covers his childhood, his years at Sotheby's, his archaeology studies, his writing at the London Sunday Times magazine, and his death from AIDS

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About the Author

Susannah Clapp worked as an editor and reader at Jonathan Cape. She helped found the London Review of Books, where she was assistant editor for several years, and is currently theatre critic for BBC Radio 3's Nightwaves. She lives in London.

From the Inside Flap

d and fascinating portrait of Bruce Chatwin, Susannah Clapp has brilliantly captured the intense energy and chameleon-like complexity of this supremely original and contradictory figure. A bi-sexual of arresting beauty, Chatwin loved to perform for an audience, to dazzle and seduce with talk, tales and outlandish facts. As Craig Raine has written, "He always knew more than you. He was a fine-art expert who could spot a fake as well as a great original, and his eye earned him the reputation of an aesthete." But Chatwin--obsessed with the theme of nomadism--was always pleased to rough it, travelling to the most far-flung and exotic landscapes, whether it was Tibet, Mali, Gabon, Sudan, China or South America. He has been compared to T. E. Lawrence, Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Rimbaud.<br><br>Susannah Clapp was Chatwin's first editor, and she describes in detail her work with him on In Patagonia, a book that changed the idea of what travel writing could be. Her poised, imp

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679410333
• ISBN 13: 9780679410331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 241