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Bruce Chatwin: A Biography by Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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"Bruce Chatwin burst onto the literary landscape in 1977 with In 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, and Utz - 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.". "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 si

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957-
Publisher
New York: Anchor Books
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9780385498302
Category
history
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction
Rating
4.12 / 5 (357 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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