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Paperback, 2004
Current format, Paperback, 2004, First Vintage International edition, All copies in use.
Paperback, 2004
Current format, Paperback, 2004, First Vintage International edition, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formats
On publication of William Boyd's new hardback, a fresh new look for his classic novel spanning every decade of the 20th century
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 as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness. Here, then, is the story of a life lived to the full - and a journey deep into a very human heart.
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