by William Boyd · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241981450
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«Any Human Heart» is the historical novel by William Boyd, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (512 pages, in English).
The novel follows the life of Logan Mountstuart from youth to old age across the twentieth century. Writer, spy and art dealer, he crosses paths with Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and Ian Fleming and makes the same mistakes as everyone in his search for happiness. A chronicle of an extraordinary life and of the human condition.
This edition belongs to the Penguin Essentials collection (no. 72) and was a selection of the «Between the Covers» club on BBC Two. The work was nominated for the Booker Prize and won the Prix Jean-Monnet.
For readers of historical fiction and British literary fiction, especially those who enjoy Sebastian Faulks, Nick Hornby or Hilary Mantel.
William Andrew Murray Boyd is a British novelist, short story writer screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his novels, which include A Good Man in Africa (1981), Any Human Heart (2002), and Restless (2006), many of which have received critical acclaim and literary awards. Boyd has also written screenplays for film and television, including Chaplin (1992), and directed the World War I drama The Trench (1999). His work is characterised by its narrative vitality and range, earning him numerous accolades including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Costa Book Award. A number of his works are what he describes as "whole-life" novels which follow a protagonist through the highs and lows of a varied and often remarkable life. He regularly fuses fact with fiction and his lead characters encounter well-known historical figures. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. John Self, writing for The Booker Prizes, described Boyd’s work as “vigorous, entertaining novels” produced by an “exceptionally fertile imagination,” and praised his fiction as “fully committed to his stories and characters.”
