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, /5(K). No one is better than William Boyd at drawing the reader into [a] tale from the very first sentence. The Spectator (UK) - Anita Brookner An excellent picaresque novel, written in a confident, easy-going style Any Human Heart is an old-fashioned, new-fangled tour de force which maintains its brio to . · 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. Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in , and died of a heart attack on October 5, , aged /5(K).
In Any Human Heart, William Boyd manages to create a not entirely likeable character, Logan Mountstuart, who nonetheless is an entirely sympathetic protagonist. Logan is not the nicest person in the world. He manipulates friends for his own amusement, sleeps with one of his closests friend's fiance, and commits a number of other, minor. "Any Human Heart is a bigger, more ambitious book than throw-away Boyd efforts like Stars and Bars and Armadillo, and while it's a bumpy performance at times, Mr. Boyd does such a nimble job of ventriloquism in the book's opening sections that we find ourselves forgetting that Mountstuart is a fictional character. The introduction, discussion questions and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Any Human Heart, by William Boyd, author of Armadillo, The Blue Afternoon, and Brazzaville www.doorway.rum Boyd, who has been called "a master storyteller" (Chicago Tribune) and "one of the most skillful and appealing writers at work today" (The Atlantic Monthly), now.
Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a novel by William Boyd, a British writer. It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the fictional character Mountstuart, a writer whose life (–) spanned the defining episodes of the 20th century, crossed several continents and included a convoluted sequence of relationships and literary endeavours. Any Human Heart is a fictional autobiography, an innovative and seldom encountered genre. Though there are multiple emotional relationships in the life of Logan Mountstuart; widely differing careers, geographic switches from the UK to various European countries, and a particularly well-developed sojourn in Africa, every person, profession, and setting seems drawn directly from the writer's personal experience. Any Human Heart by William Boyd. Author:William Boyd, Date: Ma,Views: Author:William Boyd. Language: eng. Format: mobi, epub, azw3. Tags: www.doorway.ruical, Classics, www.doorway.ruporary, War, Modern. ISBN: Publisher: Knopf. Published: T+
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