With Chatwin : portrait of a writer /
Clapp has captured the intense energy and chameleon-like complexity of this original and contradictory figure. A bisexual of arresting beauty, Chatwin loved to perform for an audience, to dazzle and seduce with talk, tales and outlandish facts. He was a fine-art expert who could spot a fake as well...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
1997.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | Clapp has captured the intense energy and chameleon-like complexity of this original and contradictory figure. A bisexual of arresting beauty, Chatwin loved to perform for an audience, to dazzle and seduce with talk, tales and outlandish facts. He was a fine-art expert who could spot a fake as well as a great original, and his eye earned him the reputation of an aesthete. But Chatwin was always pleased to rough it, travelling to the most far-flung and exotic landscapes, whether it was Tibet, Mali, Gabon, Sudan, China or South America. He has been compared to T.E. Lawrence, Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Rimbaud.--From publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. Purchased for the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies collection by The Cushing Library. |
| Physical Description: | x, 241 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0679410333 9780679410331 |