Under The Sun Bruce Chatwin Elizabeth Chatwin Nicholas Shakespeare by Bruce Chatwin, Elizabeth Chatwin, Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099466147, 0099466147, B00407121U instant download after payment.

The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a nomad whose desire for adventure and enlightenment was made wholly evident by his writing. 

"Wonderful... the closest we are ever going to get to a Chatwin autobiography."  -  William Dalrymple, The Times Literary Supplement (London) 

A man of intense energy and chameleonlike complexity, he was, in his life as in his art, forever in quest of the exotic and the unexpected. He moved at ease within diverse art, literary, and social circles, and his lifelong travels took him to the farthest-flung corners of Asia, Africa, South America, and Australia. This marvellous selection of letters-to his wife, Elizabeth; to his parents, Charles and Margharita; and to friends, including Patrick Leigh Fermor, James Ivory, Paul Theroux, and Susan Sontag -reveals a passionate man and a storyteller par excellence, spinning the narrative of his life from his first week of school to his untimely death. 

Written with the verve and sharpness of expression that first marked him as a writer of singular talent, Chatwin's letters provide a vivid record of his changing interests and concerns, as well as chronicling his lifelong restlessness and the gestation of his books. Under the Sun is the closest readers will get to an autobiography by this exceptional literary talent.

Bruce Chatwin Between 1972 and 1975 Chatwin worked for the Sunday Times, before announcing his next departure in a telegram: 'Gone to Patagonia for six months.' This trip inspired the first of Chatwin's books, In Patagonia, which won the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M. Forster Award and launched his writing career. On publication, The Songlines went straight to Number 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list and remained in the top ten for nine months. On The Black Hill won the Whitbread First Novel Award while his novel Utz was nominated for the 1988 Booker Prize.