Word: chatwin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Drabble -- ROCK SPRINGS, Richard Ford -- A SOUTHERN FAMILY, Gail Godwin NONFICTION A LIFE IN PEACE AND WAR, Brian Urquhart -- THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN QUEEN, Katharine Hepburn -- MAN OF THE HOUSE, Tip O'Neill with William Novak -- THE MASK OF COMMAND, John Keegan -- MIAMI, Joan Didion -- THE SONGLINES, Bruce Chatwin...
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, Barrie Penrose and Simon Freeman -- IN SEARCH OF MELANCHOLY BABY, Vassily Aksyonov -- MAN OF THE HOUSE, Tip O'Neill with William Novak -- THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN QUEEN, Katharine Hepburn -- MIAMI, Joan Didion -- THE SONGLINES, Bruce Chatwin...
BEST INTENTIONS, Robert Sam Anson CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, Barrie Penrose and Simon Freeman -- IN SEARCH OF MELANCHOLY BABY, Vassily Aksyonov ORPHANS: REAL AND IMAGINARY, Eileen Simpson -- RACING THROUGH PARADISE, William F. Buckley Jr. -- THE SONGLINES, Bruce Chatwin...
...Outback, which is currently In, Chatwin finds that rooms are few and far between. Lonesomeness and cultural dislocation are the norm, and traditional songlines are sometimes surprisingly upbeat. What would the ancestors think of the aboriginal rock band whose record Grandfather's Country reached No. 3 on the antipodean charts? Or of the highly educated tribal leader who twice a year set aside his hunting spear, put on a double-breasted suit and boarded a train for Adelaide, where he read back issues of Scientific American...
...riches of The Songlines are varied and artfully stashed. Chatwin's physical journey over Australia's parched hide corresponds to his intellectual excursions, which are full of surprising turns. He travels light, living off his readings, his impressions and quotations from such diverse sources as Herodotus, Buddha, Heidegger and a Caribou Eskimo who said, "Life is one long journey on which only the unfit are left behind." What this furry philosopher ignored was that the unfit are frequently poets, abandoned to new perceptions. Like turning Australia into a metaphor for mind, thinly cultivated at the edges and wildly alive...