Author and broadcaster Shakespeare has achieved something great
with this revealing assessment of Chatwin, writer and traveller - a
man behind many masks, 'the ultimate story-teller' in the words of
German film director Werner Herzog. Chatwin's reputation since his
death from AIDS has grown significantly and the author, having
gained access to private notebooks, diaries and letters, has
created here a definitive biography of one of the world's most
elusive literary figures. In this book you will travel through five
continents in his footsteps and come close to seeing the
fascinating man whose ultimate story was his own self-mythology.
(Kirkus UK)
Bruce Chatwin’s death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end. Chatwin burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book,
In Patagonia, and his subsequent diverse books confirmed his status as a major writer. Chatwin himself was different things to different people: a journalist, a photographer, an art collector, a restless traveller and a best-selling author; he was also a married man, an active homosexual, a socialite who loved to mix with the rich and famous, and a single-minded loner who explored the limits of extreme solitude.
From unrestricted access to Chatwin’s private notebooks, diaries and letters, Nicholas Shakespeare has compiled the definitive biography of one of the most charismatic and elusive literary figures of our time.
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