Books like Any human heart by William Boyd
Logan Mounstuart’s bound journals guide readers across a century of global travel and shifting fortunes. Beginning in Uruguay, the novel follows him to Oxford, Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, where he confronts the complexities of love, ambition and intrigue. Along the way, Mounstuart encounters three wives, a network of friends and rivals, and historical personalities—including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf—offering a portrait of a life that intertwines personal ambition with the broader currents of 20th‑century history.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: William Boyd
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