Any Human Heart (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: William Boyd
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1912-1991
- Setting: Uruguay, England, Austria, France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, the Bahamas, Switzerland, Iceland, and New York City, Connecticut, Los Angeles, Italy, and Nigeria
- Principal Characters: Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, Francis Mountstuart, Mercedes de Solis Mountstuart, Peter Scabius, Benjamin Leeping, Cyprien Dieudomo, Lady Laeticia (Lottie) Edgefield, Lionel Mountstuart, Freya Deverell, Stella Mountstuart, Alannah Rule, Gail Rule, Nat Tate
- Genres: Long fiction, Novel
- Subjects: Wives, Journalism or journalists, France or French people, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Friendship, Novelists, England or English people, Adultery, Loyalty, Old age or elderly people, Great Britain
- Locales: New York, NY, France, Connecticut, Spain, Los Angeles, CA, England, Germany, Italy, Bahamas, Switzerland, Portugal, Austria, Nigeria, Uruguay, Iceland
William Boyd’s eighth novel deals with many of the same interests as his earlier works: British expatriates, the ups and downs of the artistic life, the chaos of war, the vicissitudes of love and sex, the boredom and joy of public-school and university life, and the indifference of the universe to the fates of individuals. Much like his earlier novel The New Confessions (1988), Any Human Heart encompasses a considerable portion of the history and culture of the twentieth century in presenting the travails of its protagonist. While the hero of the earlier work is a...
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