Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin

Elizabeth Chatwin, Nicholas Shakespeare (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0670022462 / ISBN 13: 9780670022465

Editore: Viking, NY, 2011

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Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 554 pages. This compilation of correspondence is aptly titled. British travel writer and novelist Chatwin traveled widely, constantly, and obsessively?everywhere under the sun, in other words. He possessed a restless soul, to be sure. And to a large degree, he was secretive; information about his homosexuality and his affliction with the AIDS virus was closely guarded. He cast a personal spell with his charm and a lasting one through his works, which are so imaginative they are pure excitement to read; at the same time, however, it can be confusing to determine whether to see them as fiction or nonfiction. Nevertheless, beginning with his first published book, In Patagonia (1977), Chatwin maintained a reputation among discerning readers for his riveting characters?invented or not is unimportant, even in his travel books?and his rigorously precise writing style. Chatwin?s wife and his biographer (Bruce Chatwin, 2000) combined efforts over a two-decade period to retrieve more than 90 percent of Chatwin?s correspondence from childhood to immediately before his untimely death at 48. Chatwin?s many appreciators will see the compilation in its overall significance as a personal visit with one of their literary heroes, as much as that is possible now. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise like new. Record # 374485.

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• Titolo: Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
• Editore: Viking, NY
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0670022462
• ISBN 13: 9780670022465
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta

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Riassunto

A definitive collection of personal correspondence by the late author of such works as In Patagonia offers insight into his life and perspectives and includes letters written to family members and friends including Patrick Leigh Fermor, Paul Theroux and Susan Sontag.

Informazioni sugli autori

Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989) was the author of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz. His other books are What Am I Doing Here and Anatomy of Restlessness, posthumous anthologies of shorter works, and Far Journeys, a collection of his photographs that also includes selections from his travel notebooks.

Bruce Chatwin was born in 1940 and was the author of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz. The last three he considered works of fiction. His other books include the essay collections What Am I Doing Here and The Anatomy of Restlessness. Chatwin died in Nice, France, on January 18, 1989.
Elizabeth Chatwin was born in America and went to London in 1961 to work at Sotheby's, where she met Bruce Chatwin. They were married in 1965. She lives on a farm near Oxford, where she raises Black Welsh mountain sheep.
Nicholas Shakespeare was born in Worcester in 1957. He is the author of The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask awards; The High Flyer, The Dancer Upstairs, and, most recently, Inheritance. His nonfiction includes In Tasmania and an acclaimed biography of Bruce Chatwin.