Any Human Heart
by:
William Boyd (author)
William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.
William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400031009 (1400031001)
ASIN: 1400031001
Publish date: January 6th 2004
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Contemporary,
Modern
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Lovely sweeping novel - the story of a life - touching, interesting, great audiobook performance by Simon Vance.
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2010/03/review-any-human-heart-by-william-boyd.html
I have liked this book a great deal more than I wanted to admit. It flows easily, and the diary format, with short entries and some gossipy ingredients, makes it hard to break away. This was addictive reading.Several readers in GR have criticized that they do not like the main character. To me he...
I enjoyed this tremendously, even though I watched the TV adaptation a few weeks earlier, so I already knew the characters and plot (though there are some differences).STRUCTURED AS MEMOIRSThis is presented as a compilation of journals kept by Logan Mountstuart from shortly before he left school in ...