The definitive collection of the letters of the enigmatic writer, providing new perspectives on his extraordinary life
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. Elizabeth 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. b> b>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.
"It seems that Chatwin is narrating his own life, from the false
starts, unsatisfying jobs, unfinished studies and unpublished
writing to the precipitate moves, the eruptions of boredom and the
infatuations with people, with places, with ideas. These letters
burst with affectionate salutations, explosions of rage, sudden
enthusiasm."
-- Paul Theroux, "Daily Telegraph
""A masterpiece of sympathetic and diligent editing, absolutely
fascinating and larded with acerbic comments from Nicholas
Shakespeare's joint editor, Elizabeth Chatwin."
"-- Spectator
""As Under the Sun poignantly reveals, when he died Chatwin's
extravagant writing gifts were gelling into a wider and deeper
understanding of the human condition and the world we inhabit."
"-- Sunday Express
" "From the Trade Paperback edition."
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