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Bruce Chatwin (English Authors Series)

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Indeed Chatwin is a mystery to his readers. I was one of them. Even his closest friends and editor (Susannah Clapp) wrote puzzling portraits of Chatwin. Chatwin was surely a writer and a man of contradictions...no less apparaent in his several personal relationships of both female and male lovers. Any writer dying at the relatively youthful age of 48 (from AIDS) leaves his readers both sad and puzzled. Chatwin is one of them. Sad, because we are deprived of his special gift of the pen and deprived because we no longer have access to a writer of his depth and contribution to this special literary genre. Dr. Meanor's book, Bruce Chatwin (Twayne's English Authors series, No. 542) opens up his life and his writing in a way which suggests an approach to his work. We begin to comprehend in ways we never first understood, what motivated him to travel afar in the first place and what bothered him about modern life and how he revealed his personal and literary restlessness. Chatwin suddenly becomes much more accessible, but the search still continues, even though Chatwin's personal journey has ended.