Die intimen Tagebücher des imaginären Schriftstellers Logan Mountstuart, Sohn eines englischen Geschäftsführers einer Firma für Corned Beef und seiner uruguaischen Sekretärin, führen uns auf die Spur eines wilden Lebens von der Qualität einer Achterbahn. Anhand der Aufzeichungen des Bohemiens geht es von Uruguay nach Oxford, weiter nach Paris, den Bahamas, New York und West Afrika. Wir treffen seine drei Frauen, seine Familie, seine Freunde und Feinde, aber auch Prominenz wie Ernest Hemingway und Virginia Woolf - und nebenbei die großen Ereignisse des vergangenen Jahrhunderts ...

Informationen zum Autor William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of seventeen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. Any Human Heart was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series with Channel 4. In 2005, Boyd was awarded the CBE. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Autorentext
William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of seventeen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. Any Human Heart was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series with Channel 4. In 2005, Boyd was awarded the CBE. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.