With Chatwin

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Portrait of a Writer

Susannah Clapp

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English

Vintage
06 February 1998

Biography: general; Literary studies: from c 1900 -

'Excellent, absorbing, affectionate, unillusioned, vivid and affecting' - Craig Raine, Financial Times

Few writers have had as many distinct lives as Bruce Chatwin and few have been as compelling in person as in print. Chatwin was a traveller, an aesthete and an anthropologist. In his twenties he was a star at Sotheby's; in his thirties he was a star at The Sunday Times. A solitary man and a socialite; he was always

exotic. He became famous as the person who reinvented travel-writing and when he died in 1989, aged 48, he had published six strikingly varied books.

Susannah Clapp's book is not a biography, but collects her own memories of Chatwin and those of his friends, acquaintances and colleagues, with the aim of producing a chronology of the author's life and, more important, of illuminating particular fields of interest. This is not merely a celebratory volume, but a investigatory one, illustrated with photographs of and by Bruce Chatwin.

By: Susannah Clapp
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9780099733713
ISBN 10: 0099733714
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 06 February 1998
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Susannah Clapp worked as an editor and reader at Jonathan Cape. She helped to found the London Review of Books, where she was assistant editor for several years. She is currently the theatre critic of the Observer and a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio.

Reviews for With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer

Bruce Chatwin, author of In Patagonia and The Songlines, was a remarkable writer and a florid character. He liked to try on roles and try out people and, in the course of a career that covered art expert, journalist and novelist, he met and befriended many famous modern literary figures. He died in 1989. Clapp, editor and friend, has written an affectionate account of a spellbinding figure. (Kirkus UK)