Friday, March 2, 2012

Bruce Chatwin: A Biography

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Award-winning novelist Nicholas Shakespeare has written the definitive biography of one of the most influential literary figures of our time: Bruce Chatwin whose works’ strangely compelling combination of research first-hand experience myth and mystification may have been the real substance of his seemingly contradictory life.

Chatwin’s first book In Patagonia became an international bestseller revived the art of travel writing and inspired a generation to set out in search of adventure. Chatwin became a celebrity while remaining a conundrum. With little formal education he had become a director of Sotheby’s. An avid collector he eschewed material things and revered the nomadic life. Married for twenty-three years he had male lovers throughout the world. And only at his death did his personal myth fail him. Nicholas Shakespeare who was given unrestricted access to his papers spent eight years retracing Chatwin’s steps and interviewing the people who knew him. The result is a biography that is at once sympathetic and revelatory.[]

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