1998, ISBN: 9780099769712

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Vintage Publishing], Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield in 1940. After attending Marlborough School he began work as a porter at Sotheby's. Eight years later, hav… More...

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Vintage Publishing], 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..., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 272, [GW: 196g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, [CT: Sonstiges / Sonstiges]<

1998, ISBN: 9780099769712

Vintage Classics, Paperback, Auflage: Vintage, 262 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-12-03T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.2 kg, Verkaufsrang: 21040, Children's Books, Subjects, Books, Contempor… More...

Vintage Classics, Paperback, Auflage: Vintage, 262 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-12-03T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.2 kg, Verkaufsrang: 21040, Children's Books, Subjects, Books, Contemporary Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Rural Life, Humour, 3e708b60-20fb-41e8-a18d-05c77fb89b4c_6201, 3e708b60-20fb-41e8-a18d-05c77fb89b4c_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, School Books : Promotion, 3e708b60-20fb-41e8-a18d-05c77fb89b4c_6001, 3e708b60-20fb-41e8-a18d-05c77fb89b4c_7101, Vintage Classics Store, 579c3025-5e5c-446b-80c9-b24e6fd5c94f_3601, 579c3025-5e5c-446b-80c9-b24e6fd5c94f_0, Special Features Stores, Books Global Store, Vintage Classics, 1998<

1998, ISBN: 0099769719

[EAN: 9780099769712], Neubuch, [SC: 2.9], [PU: Vintage Publishing Dez 1998], Neuware - On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in r… More...

[EAN: 9780099769712], Neubuch, [SC: 2.9], [PU: Vintage Publishing Dez 1998], Neuware - On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience. 272 pp. Deutsch, Books<

ISBN: 9780099769712

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, to… More...

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience. Books Bruce Chatwin|Paperback|Vintage Publishing|03/12/1998, Vintage Publishing<