Bruce Chatwin

What Am I Doing Here?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'

Produktdetails

• Vintage Classics
• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 609501
• 1998.
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780099769811
• ISBN-10: 0099769816
• Artikelnr.: 15138678

Autorenporträt

Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield in 1940. After attending Marlborough School he began work as a porter at Sotheby's. Eight years later, having become one of Sotheby's youngest directors, he abandoned his job to pursue his passion for world travel. Between 1972 and 1975 he 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. Two of his books have been made into feature films: The Viceroy of Ouidah (retitled Cobra Verde), directed by Werner Herzog, and Andrew Grieve's On the Black Hill. 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. He died in January 1989, aged forty-eight.

Rezensionen

As a writer he was unclassifiably interesting: lucid, ironic, cool. He seemed to owe nothing to anybody. Colin Thubron Sunday Times