Bruce Chatwin - Hardcover

Shakespeare, Nicholas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860465447 ISBN 13: 9781860465444

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 1999

Synopsis

In the years since his death from AIDS, Bruce Chatwin s reputation as a story-teller has grown and his books have continued to attract and inspire readers all over the world. At the same time there has been an increasing awareness that it was through his life and death that he created his ultimate story, a self-mythology based on a mixture of truth and fantasy. Journalist and traveller, devoted husband and active gay, glamorous socialite and single-minded loner, Chatwin condensed many lives and contradictions into his 48 years. In 1991 Nicholas Shakespeare was given unrestricted access to Chatwin s private notebooks, diaries and letters. Since then he has interviewed hundreds of friends, relations and enemies, and travelled through five continents in his footsteps. He has uncovered the Chatwin behind the masks, and has written a fascinating and definitive biography of one of the most elusive and charismatic literary figures of our time.

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About the Author

Nicholas Shakespeare is the author of "The Vision of Elena Silves," winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for "The High Flyer," for which he was nominated one of "Granta"'s Best of Young British Novelists in 1993, and "The Dancer Upstairs." Between 1991 and 1998 he journeyed in Chatwin's tracks to research this authorized biography.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

Edition details

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860465447
• ISBN 13: 9781860465444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384