Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin - Hardcover

Chatwin, Bruce

 
9780670022465: Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin

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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.

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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.

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