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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Textbook
- ISBN
- 9780385498296
- Book Title
- Bruce Chatwin : a Biography
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Literary, Essays & Travelogues, Subjects & Themes / General
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 36.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 640 Pages
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"Unimprovable (and unstoppably readable)" --Pico Iyer,Time "Moving and elegant...A superb portrayal of the restless and randy travel writer brings us as close to his hidden heart as we're likely to get." --Salon.com "Shakespeare's engrossing bio does exactly what Chatwin's fans have longed to do: get beneath the alluring but elusive quality of his persona and prose. [Grade]: 'A'" --Entertainment Weekly "Immensely readable... Shakespeare portrays a man of colossal energies and intellect in perpetual conflict, whose life was a web of contradiction, controversy, and conundrum.... Shakespeare artfully synthesizes what could have been cacophonous voices into an impressively rendered and remarkably coherent portrait." --Vogue "Quite simply, one of the most beautifully written, painstakingly researched, and cleverly constructed biographies written this decade. Shakespeare has a quite extraordinary empathy for his subject, whom he portrays with humor, warmth, and an eye for telling detail, creating a book almost as original, intelligent, and observant as those by Chatwin himself." --William Dalrymple,Literary Review(London) Bruce Chatwin burst onto the literary landscape in 1977 withIn Patagonia, which quickly became one of the most influential travel books of the twentieth century. The books that followed--The Viceroy of Ouidah,On the Black Hill,The Songlines, andUtz--confirmed his status as a major writer able to reinvent himself constantly. And the life he led successfully established him as one of the most charismatic and elusive literary figures of our time. Beautiful to behold, charming, intelligent, a writer of exquisite prose, Chatwin was welcome in every society--from the most glamorous patrons of Sotheby's, where he held his first job, to the remote tribes of Africa. He was a thinker of striking originality, a reader of astonishing breadth and depth, and a mesmerizing storyteller. Salman Rushdie claimed that "he had the most erudite and possibly the most brilliant mind I ever came across." And yet for all the adoration he received, when Chatwin died of AIDS in 1989, he died an enigma, a panoply of apparently conflicting identities. Married for twenty-three years to his American wife, Elizabeth, he was also an active homosexual. A socialite who loved to regale his rich and famous friends with uproariously funny stories about his travels and the people he met on them, he was at heart a single-minded loner who explored the limits of extreme solitude. Award-winning novelist Nicholas Shakespeare spent eight years traveling across five continents in Chatwin's footsteps. He was given unrestricted access to Chatwin's private notebooks, diaries, and letters, and has gathered evidence from Chatwin's peers, his friends, his family, his hosts, his enemies, and his lovers. The result is this masterful biography, rendered in a graceful narrative that brilliantly leads us into Chatwin's world--across all the vast geographic, social, and emotional expanses that he traveled--and into his psyche. Beautiful to behold, charming, intelligent, a writer of exquisite prose, Chatwin was welcome in every society--from the most glamorous patrons of Sotheby's, where he held his first job, to the remote tribes of Africa. He was a thinker of striking originality, a reader of astonishing erudition, and a mesmerizing storyteller. Although married for twenty-three years to his American wife, Elizabeth, he was also an active homosexual, but at heart, a loner. Acclaimed novelist Nicholas Shakespeare spent eight years traveling in Chatwin's footsteps. The result is this definitive biography rendered in a graceful narrative that brilliantly leads us into Chatwin's world, from the glittering dinner tables among the famous to foreign deserts am
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385498292
ISBN-13
9780385498296
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1163523
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bruce Chatwin : a Biography
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Essays & Travelogues, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
640 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
36.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6053.H395z88 2000
Reviews
"In Nicholas Shakespeare, Chatwin has found the right biographer. This is a magnificent work of empathy and detection." --Colin Thubron, The Sunday Times (London) "An epic work of immense satisfaction. In awe-inspiring detail and with a rounding-out of all the other characters, Shakespeare takes us successively through the milieux of Chatwin's life--and drenches all these worlds in their emotional, human implications." --Duncan Fallowell, The Times (London) "Biographies don't come any better than this. Eight years in the writing, Bruce Chatwin is a glorious quilt-work of texts, voices, and places, joined together with consummate judgment." --Justin Wintle, Financial Times (London) "Nicholas Shakespeare's biography feels concise: comprehensively researched, elegantly written, perfectly balanced between the life, the books, and the ideas." --Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday, "In Nicholas Shakespeare, Chatwin has found the right biographer. This is a magnificent work of empathy and detection." --Colin Thubron,The Sunday Times(London) "An epic work of immense satisfaction. In awe-inspiring detail and with a rounding-out of all the other characters, Shakespeare takes us successively through the milieux of Chatwin's life--and drenches all these worlds in their emotional, human implications." --Duncan Fallowell,The Times(London) "Biographies don't come any better than this. Eight years in the writing, Bruce Chatwin is a glorious quilt-work of texts, voices, and places, joined together with consummate judgment." --Justin Wintle,Financial Times(London) "Nicholas Shakespeare's biography feels concise: comprehensively researched, elegantly written, perfectly balanced between the life, the books, and the ideas." --Blake Morrison,Independent on Sunday
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-036474
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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