Name: On The Black Hill von Bruce Chatwin
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On The Black Hill Zusammenfassung

On The Black Hill Bruce Chatwin

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.

On The Black Hill Bewertungen

"His deepest and best book" * Independent *
"When I think of Bruce Chatwin now, I think of the ultimate storyteller. It's the resonance of the voice and the depth of his vision that makes him one of the truly great writers of our time" -- Werner Herzog, from 'Bruce Chatwin' by Nicholas Shakespeare
"Nearly every writer of my generation in England has wanted, at some point, to be Bruce Chatwin; wanted, like him, to talk of Fez and Firdausi, Nigeria and Nuristan, with equal authority; wanted to be talked about, as he is, with raucous envy; wanted above all to have written his books...(he was) a writer no one who cares for literature can afford not to read." -- Andrew Harvey * New York Times *

Über Bruce Chatwin

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.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR000941469

ISBN 13

9780099769712

ISBN 10

0099769719

Titel

On The Black Hill Bruce Chatwin

Autor

Bruce Chatwin

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Vintage Publishing

Datum

1998-12-03

Anzahl der Seiten

272

Preise

Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1982 Winner of Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1982

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