{"product_id":"9780099733713-secondhand-with-chatwin-portrait-of-a-writer","title":"With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer","description":"'Excellent, absorbing, affectionate, unillusioned, vivid and affecting' - Craig Raine, Financial Times\n\nFew writers have had as many distinct lives as Bruce Chatwin and few have been as compelling in person as in print. Chatwin was a traveller, an aesthete and an anthropologist. In his twenties he was a star at Sotheby's; in his thirties he was a star at The Sunday Times. A solitary man and a socialite; he was always  exotic. He became famous as the person who reinvented travel-writing and when he died in 1989, aged 48, he had published six strikingly varied books. \n\nSusannah Clapp's book is not a biography, but collects her own memories of Chatwin and those of his friends, acquaintances and colleagues, with the aim of producing a chronology of the author's life and, more important, of illuminating particular fields of interest. This is not merely a celebratory volume, but a investigatory one, illustrated with photographs of and by Bruce Chatwin.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49310283792603,"sku":"9780099733713-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a86b3949-156d-4470-85d6-bfda5fd5a49b.jpg?v=1789468401","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780099733713-secondhand-with-chatwin-portrait-of-a-writer","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}