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).
Any Human Heart is William's Boyd's classic, bestselling novel Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy. My father's name was Francis Mountstuart (b. ). My mother's was Mercedes de Sol#;s. She claimed to be descended from the first European, Juan D#;az de Sol#;s, who set his foot on. Any Human Heart: With Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen, Conor Nealon, Hayley Atwell. A novelist's life ricochets from s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.
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. 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 the very end. Any Human Heart Quotes Showing of “It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.”.
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