And thanks for posting the link to the review in New Republic as well...though it wouldn't let me read the whole thing as not a subscriber..not sure if the two-week offer is really free, will check.
I love the quote from and connection with W.G. Sebald whom I also adore.
At least Chatwin himself was honest in insisting In Patagonia and Songlines were fiction or fictionalized, his editors should have listened to him, but I guess there was fewer writing then along the fiction/non-fiction boundary?
I think it's fine, and wonderful fun, to play with this boundary as long as the reader is dealt with honestly and told when a book that appears factual is actually not....
Christine
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