Bruce Chatwin

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Bruce Chatwin (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Chatwin is known principally for his semiautobiographical novels and for his remarkable ability to interweave fact and fiction in highly imaginative ways. In addition to his novels, Bruce Chatwin wrote a travelogue, In Patagonia (1977), his first full- length book and the one that made him famous. He also collaborated with Paul Theroux on Nowhere Is a Place: Travels in Patagonia (1992, originally published in 1985 as Patagonia Revisited). After his death, two...

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