Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
by Chatwin, Bruce
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0224089897
- ISBN 13
- 9780224089890
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Synopsis
BRUCE CHATWIN reinvented British travel writing with his first book, In Patagonia , and followed it with four other books, each unique and extraordinary. He died in 1989. ElLIZABETH CHATWIN was born in the U.S.A. She came to London in 1961 to work at Sotheby's, where she met Bruce Chatwin. They married in 1965. She now keeps Black Welsh Mountain Sheep. NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE was born in Worcester in 1957 and grew up in the Far East and Latin America. He is the author of The Vision of the Elena Silves , winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask awards, The High Flyer , for which he was nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, The Dancer Upstairs , and most recently, Inheritance. His non-fiction includes In Tasmania, winner of the 2007 Tasmania Book Prize, and an acclaimed biography of Bruce Chatwin. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C27049
- Title
- Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
- Author
- Chatwin, Bruce
- Book Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224089897
- ISBN 13
- 9780224089890
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2011-05-02
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