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Any Human Heart
Bill Buford (Ed.)
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Description for Any Human Heart
Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 111. .
Any Human Heart is William's Boyd's classic, bestselling novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia 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 ... Read more
Any Human Heart is William's Boyd's classic, bestselling novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Essentials
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241981450
SKU
9780241981450
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Bill Buford (Ed.)
William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France.
Reviews for Any Human Heart
Astounding. One of Boyd's greatest achievements
Mail on Sunday
Astonishing, touching, extremely funny. A brilliant evocation of a past era and an immensely readable story
Sunday Telegraph
Sheer, truly brilliant storytelling. He has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries
Daily Telegraph
This fabulous book all about life... is the journey ... Read more
Mail on Sunday
Astonishing, touching, extremely funny. A brilliant evocation of a past era and an immensely readable story
Sunday Telegraph
Sheer, truly brilliant storytelling. He has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries
Daily Telegraph
This fabulous book all about life... is the journey ... Read more