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Under the Sun – The Letters of Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin is one of the most significant British novelists and travel writers of our time. His books have become modern-day classics which defy categorisation, inspired by and reflecting his incredible journeys. Tragically, Chatwin`s compelling narrative voice was cut off just as he had found it. `Bruce had just begun` said his friend, Salman Rushdie, `we saw only the first act`. But Chatwin left behind a wealth of letters and postcards that he wrote, from his first week at school until shortly before his death at the age of forty-eight. Whether typed on Sotheby`s notepaper or hastily scribbled, Chatwin`s correspondence reveals more about himself than he was prepared to expose in his books; his health and finances, his literary ambitions and tastes, his uneasiness about his sexual orientation; above all, his lifelong quest for where to live. Comprising material collected over two decades from hundreds of contacts across five continents, Chatwin`s letters are a valuable and illuminating record of one of the greatest and most enigmatic writers of the twentieth century.

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