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This book is about Anthony Blunt, who was a man with many contradictions. He was a Surveyor of the Queens Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, but he was exposed in 1979 and his reputation was ruined. Miranda Carter's biography tells the story of Blunt's lives and how they contradict each other.
The critically acclaimed bestselling biography of Anthony Blunt now available in paperback.When Anthony Blunt died in 1983, he was a man about whom almost anything could beand wassaid. As Surveyor of the Queens Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, Blunts position was assured until his exposure in 1979, leaving his reputation in tatters. Miranda Carters brilliantly insightful biographyshortlisted for the Guardian First Book Awardgives us a vivid portrait of a human paradox. Blunts totally discrete lives, with their permanent contradictions, serve to remind us that there is no one key to any human beings identity: we are all a series of conflicting selves.
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