Jan 6, 2010
Any Human Heart | Any Human Heart
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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