Longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002, Any Human Heart tells the extraordinary story of a life lived to the fullest.
Any Human Heart
Written by William Boyd
- Longlisted
- The Man Booker Prize 2002
- Published by Hamish Hamilton
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William Boyd’s entertaining story of a life apparently lived to the full turns into a journey deep into a very human heart
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary - but Logan Mountstuart’s is more extraordinary than most. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in 60s New York, Logan mixes with the movers and shakers of his times. But as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness.
William Boyd
Born in Ghana, William Boyd is the author of one work of non-fiction, multiple collections of short stories and 17 novels
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