Bruce Chatwin - Nicholas Shakespeare

Name: Bruce Chatwin
Author: Nicholas Shakespeare

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Bruce Chatwin's death from AIDS in 989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end. His reputation as a storyteller has grown over the last decade, and his exquisite, subtle texts continue to inspire readers all over the world. 'Of my contemporaries he had the most erudite and possibly the most brilliant mind I ever came across, 'says Salman Rushdie. The books that followed his first success with 'In Patagonia' confirmed his statue as a major writer able to reinvent himself constantly. Bruce Chatwin was different things to different people: a director at Sotherby's, an archeaologist, a journalist, a photographer, an art-collector, a restless traveller and a bestselling author. He was also a married man, an active homosexual He was at once a socialite, mixing with the rich and famous, and a single-minded loner who explored the limtis of extreme solitude.
In 1991, Nicholas Shakespeare was given unrestricted access to Chatwin's private notebooks, diaries and letters. Across five continents he has gathered evidenc...

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