

Any Human Heart
Author: William Boyd
Narrator: Simon Vance
Unabridged: 15 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 05/27/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: William Boyd
Narrator: Simon Vance
Unabridged: 15 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 05/27/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of sixteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. Any Human Heart was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series. His books have won many literary awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and the Costa Book Award. He was named a Granta Best Young Novelist in 1983, and in 2005, he was awarded the CBE. Boyd is married and divides his time between London and southwest France.
Can any single human heart take in all the history of the twentieth century? Any Human Heart is a story of one such heart which could hold within almost all the crucial events of this turbulent age. And the story is as sorrowful and rich as was the history of the century… But there is always hope fo......more
I found this book to be different, in style, to others I’ve read by this author. After a couple of chapters I really wasn’t sure if I liked it at all but by the end I was totally captivated. It’s written as a series of journal (diary) entries and tells the story of a life that’s been lived in every......more
Thick, dense, and sprawling... not my usual fare, I must say, but I simply could not put this book down. 'Any Human Heart' is one of those rare long novels that pulls you in and holds you tight throughout its many pages. Exceptionally well written, William Boyd has a rare gift for effective and robu......more
Britanci su snimili sjajan film snimljen po ovoj knjizi... Kako to samo oni umeju da urade... :) A na ovog autora obratite paznju, odlican je.........more
With the opening Henry James quote, I immediately knew this used bookstore find was a keeper. Structured as the collected diaries of Logan Mountstuart, "Any Human Heart" is the story of a life that spanned most of the twentieth century. Because of the format, the style changes as Logan ages, there ar......more