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Read Book Any Human Heart Ebook, Epub ANY HUMAN HEART PDF, EPUB, EBOOK William Boyd | 512 pages | 06 Jan 2004 | Random House USA Inc | 9781400031009 | English | New York, United States Heart of the matter | William Boyd | The Guardian She eventually has to take in lodgers. Logan himself - as his friend Peter Scabius rises to literary stardom - also suffers a mighty fall. By the s, after a period as a schoolmaster in Biafra, and now quite forgotten as a writer, he is living on dogfood and selling revolutionary newspapers in London - a profession which leads him into involvement with the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Inconceivable as it may seem, the links between these different lives are plausibly entwined. The only false thread is the introduction into the New York art-scene sections, alongside Jackson Pollock and Frank O'Hara, of the bogus American painter Nat Tate, whose "biography" Boyd published as a hoax in The device punctures the realism Boyd has so carefully built up in the rest of the novel. At the same time, however, the Tate references remind us that Any Human Heart is a created work expressing the concerns, passions and hobbyhorses of its begetter - just as, in one sense, Logan's journal does. As he puts it: "We keep a journal to entrap the collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being. Yet while it proclaims its own internal flux "the true journal If it is not quite as successful as what might be taken as its companion among Boyd's other volumes, The New Confessions , which used Rousseau as a sounding board to recount another 20th- century life, that's because that book was one of the best novels of recent times. Both writers appear in Any Human Heart. Powell is "affable"; Waugh, or a drunken man at a party who Logan thinks is Waugh, "stuck his tongue in my mouth". Logan's true secret sharer, the real tongue in his mouth, is Boyd himself, of course. From his debut, A Good Man in Africa, onwards, he seems constantly to have been searching for a unifying identity across different fictions, trying to make sense of a life comprising a brutal public-school education, Africa in wartime, Oxford where he did a PhD on Shelley , literary London and New York glamour: to a large degree, the plot of Any Human Heart. So when all is said and done, the heart the novel tries to dissect is the author's own. It is, as ever, an enjoyable spectacle for his readers. 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Add episode. Share this page:. Clear your history. Logan Mountstuart Older 4 episodes, Logan Mountstuart Middle 4 episodes, Logan Mountstuart Child 4 episodes, Freya Deverell 4 episodes, Logan Mountstuart Young 4 episodes, Ben Leeping Older 4 episodes, Peter Scabius Older 4 episodes, Ernest Hemingway 3 episodes, Mountstuart 3 episodes, Lottie 3 episodes, Gloria Scabius 2 episodes, Tess Scabius 2 episodes, Lionel Mounstuart 2 episodes, Cyprien 2 episodes, The Earl 2 episodes, Encarnacion 2 episodes, Peter Scabius Young 2 episodes, Subadar Singh 2 episodes, Ian Fleming 2 episodes, External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. Episode Guide. Added to Watchlist. Top-Rated Episodes S1. Error: please try again. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Episodes Seasons. Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys. Edit Cast Series cast summary: Jim Broadbent Logan Mountstuart Older 4 episodes, Matthew Macfadyen Logan Mountstuart Middle 4 episodes, Conor Nealon Logan Mountstuart Child 4 episodes, Hayley Atwell Freya Deverell 4 episodes, Sam Claflin Logan Mountstuart Young 4 episodes, Ed Stoppard Ben Leeping Older 4 episodes, Samuel West Peter Scabius Older 4 episodes, Julian Ovenden Ernest Hemingway 3 episodes, Ken Bones Mountstuart 3 episodes, Flaminia Cinque Mountstuart 3 episodes, Emerald Fennell Lottie 3 episodes, Gillian Anderson Gloria Scabius 2 episodes, Holliday Grainger Tess Scabius 2 episodes, Hugh Skinner Cyprien 2 episodes, Rupert Vansittart The Earl 2 episodes, Yolanda Vazquez Any Human Heart (miniseries) - Wikipedia Stella Age 6 2 episodes, Byrne 2 episodes, Faustino Angel 1 episode, Nat Tate 1 episode, Roderick Poole 1 episode, Gail 1 episode, Lieutenant James Terrence 1 episode, Allanah Mountstuart 1 episode, Martha Gellhorn 1 episode, Doctor 1 episode, Old Man Faustino's Friend 1 episode, Nurse 1 episode, Betty 1 episode, Matron 1 episode, Land Fothergill 1 episode, Ned 1 episode, Winston Churchill 1 episode, Death Wish Patient 1 episode, Lawyer 1 episode, Chambermaid 1 episode, Estate Agent 1 episode, Anna 1 episode, Photographer 1 episode, Vicar 1 episode, Wallace Douglas 1 episode, John Vivian 1 episode, Brownwell 1 episode, The Countess 1 episode, Roth 1 episode, Lionel Child 1 episode, Reinhardt 1 episode, Petra 1 episode, Prendergast 1 episode, NID Secretary 1 episode, Monday 1 episode, Ingeborg 1 episode, Admiral Godfrey 1 episode, British Consulate Secretary 1 episode, SPK Swiss Contact 1 episode, Gendarme Zurich 1 episode, Miss Katz 1 episode, Luciden Gorse 1 episode, Stella Age 4 1 episode, Shopkeeper 1 episode, Gold Club Secretary 1 episode, Schmidt Monday's Father 1 episode, Severine 1 episode, Lieutenant McStay 1 episode, Roisanssac 1 episode, Receptionist 1 episode, Alfred De Marigny 1 episode, Sheila Adrar 1 episode, Sir Harry Oakes 1 episode, Gabrielle Dupetit 1 episode, Chief Inspector Lindop 1 episode, Gendarme on Beach 1 episode, Detective Barker 1 episode, In the Memorial Room. A wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of the dead author, and - in the best tradition of Frame - a fascinating exploration of the complexity and the beauty of language. A multigenerational story about two families bound together by the tides of history. Reader Reviews. Master storyteller Ben Macintyre tells the true story behind the Cold War's most intrepid female spy. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Subscribe to receive some of our best reviews, "beyond the book" articles, book club info, and giveaways by email. Write a Review. Book Summary A moving, ambitious and richly conceived novel that summons up the heroics and follies of twentieth-century life. Read Full Excerpt. Please be aware that this discussion guide may contain spoilers! Reader's Guide Is Logan a likeable and engaging character? If so, what Anyway, I was thinking about those kids as I hugged this book and to my chest at three o'clock this morning after staying up all night finishing it because there was no other choice really. Sometimes, a woman must finish her five-hundred page book, or die trying. The house could have caught fire for all I knew because I completely disappeared into Logan Montstuart's life for nearly five hundred pages. I only learnt from reading Cecily's review that there's a BBC movie too so now I have to try to find that so I can love it truly, madly, deeply too. NB: There is a lot of humour in this book and some quite subtle jokes. A not-so-subtle one relates to the artist Nat Tate who comes to a dramatic end by tossing himself off the Staten Island Ferry, in the manner of poet Hart Crane. View all 6 comments. Oct 11, Karen Pine rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. One sign of a good book is the sense of emptiness that lingers once the last page has been reluctantly turned. On finishing the book I found I missed the central character, Logan Mountstuart enormously, as if his death had been the death of someone I knew and loved. Logan, with all his failings, manages to charm and beguile the reader in the way he charmed many who crossed his path. I loved his wit, One sign of a good book is the sense of emptiness that lingers once the last page has been reluctantly turned. I loved his wit, his humour and, at times, his sheer anarchy and disregard for convention, religion and mediocrity. If we are to survive as individuals we can rely only on those resouces provided by our human spirit — appeals to a deity or deities are only a form of pretence. We might as well howl at the moon. I learned a lot about the male libido. I repeatedly found myself sharing his pain, particularly at the devastating and unexpected loss to him and the reader of his wife and daughter.
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