Under the Sun; The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
Published by Jonathan Cape 978-0224089890, London
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[978-0224089890] 2010. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 554pp. Illustrated endpapers, photographs, index. A crack in the text block at the title page, and a small blank white label on the front free endpaper. Edited by Elizabeth Chatwin & Nicholas Shakespeare. (Ideas, Letters, Travel Writing).
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- Title
- Under the Sun; The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
- Author
- Chatwin, Bruce (Edited by Elizabeth Chatwin; Nicholas Shakespeare.)
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape 978-0224089890, London
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224089897
- ISBN 13
- 9780224089890
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- Philosophy
'I am most certainly in the mood for writing letters'
Bruce Chatwin is one of the most significant British novelists and travel writers of our time. His books have become modern-day classics which defy categorisation, assimilating elements of fiction, essay, reportage, history and gossip, inspired by and reflecting his incredible journeys. Tragically, Chatwin's compelling narrative voice was cut off just as he had found it. One month before his death he lamented, 'There are so many things I want to do.' 'Bruce had just begun' said his friend, Salman Rushdie, 'we saw only the first act'.
While we shall never know the surprise of his unwritten works, Chatwin left behind a body of writing that is striking for its freshness; an authentic conduit which allows us to return to him and to be rewarded: a wealth of letters and postcards that he wrote, from his first week at school until shortly before his death at the age of forty-eight. Whether typed on Sotheby's notepaper or hastily scribbled, Chatwin's correspondence reveals more about himself than he was prepared to expose in his books; his health and finances, his literary ambitions and tastes, his uneasiness about his sexual orientation; above all, his lifelong quest for where to live. Written with the verve and sharpness of expression that first marked him out as a writer, Chatwin's letters gives a vivid synopsis of his changing interests and concerns throughout his life.
Careful and considered in drafting his published work, the letters are Chatwin's only unedited writing, and a paean to a disappearing mode of communication: tangible proof of a life as it was lived, and possibly one of the last great collections of a writer's letters. Comprising material collected over two decades from hundreds of contacts across five continents, Under the Sun is a valuable and illuminating record of one of the greatest and most enigmatic writers of the twentieth century.
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About the Author
Elizabeth Chatwin was born in the U.S.A. She came to London in 1961 to work at Sotheby's, where she met Bruce Chatwin. They married in1965. She now keeps Black Welsh Mountain Sheep.
Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Snowleg, The Dancer Upstairs, Inheritance, Priscilla and Six Minutes in May. He has been longlisted for the Booker Prize twice and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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