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Title	:	Any Human Heart
Author	:	William Boyd
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	January 6th 2004 by Vintage (first published January 25th 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

Any Human Heart Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

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Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85. William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart is his disjointed autobiography, a massive tome chronicling "my personal rollercoaster"--or rather, "not so much a rollercoaster", but a yo-yo, "a jerking spinning toy in the hands of a maladroit child." From his early childhood in Montevideo, son of an English corned beef executive and his Uraguayan secretary, through his years at a Norfolk public school and Oxford, Mountstuart traces his haphazard development as a writer. Early and easy success is succeeded by a long half-century of mediocrity, disappointments and setbacks, both personal and professional, leading him to multiple failed marriages, internment, alcoholism, and abject poverty. Mountstuart's sorry tale is also the story of a British way of life in inexorable decline, as his journey takes in the Bloomsbury set, the General Strike, the Spanish Civil War, 1930s Americans in Paris, wartime espionage, New York avant garde art, even the Baader-Meinhof gang--all with a stellar supporting cast. The most sustained and best moment comes mid-book, as Mountstuart gets caught up in one of Britain's murkier wartime secrets, in the company of the here truly despicable Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Elsewhere Boyd occasionally misplaces his tongue too obviously in his cheek--the Wall Street Crash is trailed with truly crashing inelegance--but overall Any Human Heart is a witty, inventive and ultimately moving novel. Boyd succeeds in conjuring not only a compelling 20th century but also, in the hapless Logan Mountstuart, an anti-hero who achieves something approaching passive greatness. --Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk

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Original Title:	Any Human Heart
ISBN:	1400031001 (ISBN13: 9781400031009)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Logan Mountstuart
Setting:	London, England England Paris(France) …more New York City, New York(United States) Oxford University, Oxford, England France Spain Bahamas Nigeria …less
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2002), Prix Jean-Monnet de littérature européenne du département de Charente (2003), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2004)

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(view spoiler)[ Bettie's Books (hide spoiler)]The TV miniseries was just as good, maybe because Boyd wrote the screen play. Fully recommended.

Yeah, I rally liked this book. Maybe it is even amazing.I love it because it is set in France, both in Paris and villages along the coast, NYC, London, Spain, Nigeria, Reykjavik, the Bahamas and more.I love it because it captures the WHOLE life of an ordinary man. It is about youth, the middle years and aging. Being a child and having children. It is about love, the physical attraction and the emotional one.Logan, the central character, is, a man with strong sexual needs. Some may label him as

I finished the book last night, and did not sleep well. What do I feel? Grief. How does one grieve for someone who was not real? Will write up a review after I've had some time to process....Later ....There is an old adage that what you observe closely you cannot help but love. That is how I feel about Logan Mountstuart. In many ways LMS is an ordinary man who lives in extraordinary times, but he is not the hero of the times he lives in, but rather on the fringes of it. Yes, he travels widely

I first read Any Human Heart ten years ago, and my short, five star review reflected much to like,(though I had a much lesser interest in reading widely at that time).This was my original review:If you like William Boyd, this will not disappoint.Written in the style of diary entries spanning life from birth to death. Historical events provide a recognisable structure and our diarist inserts himself into history. World War ll, Hemingway, Picasso.Logan Mountstuart traverses a life from

One sign of a good book is the sense of emptiness that lingers once the last page has been reluctantly turned. So it was with Any Human Heart, which completely and utterly spoiled me for whatever came next*. On finishing the book I found I missed the central character, Logan Mountstuart enormously, as if his death had been the death of someone I knew and loved. Logan, with all his failings, manages to charm and beguile the reader in the way he charmed many who crossed his path. I loved his wit,

ANY HUMAN HEART takes the form of the collected and edited journals of Landon Mountstuart, a British author and art aficionado, who was born in the first decade of the 20th century and who died in the last. It is a fine novel and I loved reading it while on vacation. It is great recreational reading.Mountstuart began journaling while still a schoolboy and continued, off and on, until near the time of his death. The arc of his life included: taking a lowly third at Jesus College at Oxford

I found this book to be different, in style, to others Ive read by this author. After a couple of chapters I really wasnt sure if I liked it at all but by the end I was totally captivated. Its written as a series of journal (diary) entries and tells the story of a life thats been lived in every decade of the 20th Century - a life lived very much to the full. Once I got used to the style I found that I was quickly sucked into the life of the character through whose eyes the story is told. Some