Any Human Heart WILLIAM BOYD
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400031001
Edition: Paperback; 2004-01-06
Summary:
The author of Armadillo, The Blue Afternoon and Brazzaville Beach—the
novelist who has been called a “master storyteller” (Chicago Tribune)
and “a gutsy writer who is good company to keep” (Time)—now gives us
his most entertaining, sly and compelling novel to date, a novel that
evokes the tumult, events and iconic faces of our time, as it tells
the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover and man of the
world—through his intimate journals.Here is the “riotous and
disorganized reality” of Mountstuart’s eighty-five years in all their
extraordinary, tragic and humorous aspects. The journals begin with
his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay; then move to Oxford in the 1920s
and the publication of his first book; then on to Paris (where he
meets Joyce, Picasso, Hemingway, et al.) and to Spain where he covers
the civil war. During World War II, we see him as an agent for Naval
Intelligence, becoming embroiled in a murder scandal that involves
the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The postwar years bring him to New
York as an art dealer in the world of 1950s abstract expressionism,
then on to West Africa, to London (where he has a run-in with the
Baader-Meinhof Gang) and, finally, to France where, in his old age,
he acquires a measure of hard-won serenity.A moving, ambitious and
richly conceived novel that summons up the heroics and follies of
twentieth-century life.
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