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Susannah Clapp

Autor(a) de With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer

3+ Works 318 Membros 5 Críticas

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Obras por Susannah Clapp

Associated Works

In a Summer Season (1961) — Introdução, algumas edições490 exemplares
The Sleeping Beauty (1953) — Introdução, algumas edições256 exemplares

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Clapp writes as Chatwin's editor and gives good insight into how his mind worked as a writer, including excerpts of drafts that never made it into the published version. As a friend, she also pulls back the curtain and reveals the many facets of Chatwin's personality, his quirks and blemishes as well. She reveals the whole person, and it is everything I had hoped it would be. And while I appreciated the insight into the writing process, it is the rest of the book that meant more to me.
 
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donblanco | 3 outras críticas | Jun 26, 2021 |
Slim biography of writer Angela Carter, who died in 1992, based around postcards sent to Susannah Clapp - a friend and her literary executor.
The postcards in and of themselves are fairly forgettable; the black and white reproductions disappointing; the content just brief messages, jokes and comments. For this casual reader, at least, of little interest. Susannah Clapp's personal memories are more interesting but at only 106 pages this was never going to to an extensive portrait.
Susannah Clapp rightly bemoans the fact that no biographical work had appeared in the twenty years following Angela Carter's death. Perhaps this work with start the ball rolling.… (mais)
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si | Mar 22, 2013 |
Susannah Clapp: With Chatwin; Portrait of a writer: 1998: eerste druk 1997: 243 blz: Vintage

Voordat Bruce Chatwin "In Patagonië **" publiceerde werkte hij een aantal jaren bij het veilingshuis Sotheby. Hij had een neus voor dingen die authentiek en de moeite van het aanschaffen waard waren. Clapp was de redactrice van het manuscript van "In Patagonië" en schrijft wat zij vond dat er aan verbeterd moest worden. "With Chatwin" gaat in op dingen als het uiterlijk van Bruce Chatwin, objecten die hij mooi vond en verzamelde en zijn vrienden. Het resultaat van dit alles is een aardig portret van Chatwin maar uit deze biografie valt geen een reden te halen waarom je de boeken van Chatwin zou moeten lezen en daar lees je toch eigenlijk een schrijversbiografie voor.
Uitgelezen zondag 18 augustus 2002, waardering **
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erikscheffers | 3 outras críticas | Sep 3, 2009 |
Heeft mijn interesse in Chatwin gewekt
 
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uiltje | 3 outras críticas | Feb 27, 2009 |

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Obras
3
Also by
2
Membros
318
Popularidade
#74,348
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
5
ISBN
18
Línguas
6

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