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William Boyd | 512 pages | 06 Jan 2004 | Random House USA Inc | 9781400031009 | English | New York, United States Heart of the matter | | 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, , 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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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

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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. The meetings with Hemingway, Picasso, Woolf etc all fit seamlessly into the novel, imbuing it with culture and intellectualism without ever any hint of name-dropping contrivance, implausibility or elitism. It stayed with me for ages - this is the literary equivalent of a nine-course meal with a great bottle of wine. Deeply satisfying. The final pages, when Logan has moved to France are beautifully poignant and evocative. He has moved to the Midi, where his penury pinches less and his slender means go farther. Hot crumpets with butter and jam — what could be more ambrosial? Munching the knob off a fresh baguette as I wander back from Saint-Sabine. The farinaceous smell of the white dust raised by a breeze from the driveway. A cuckoo sounding in the perfectly silent woods beyond the meadow. The huge grey, cerise, pink, orange and washed-out blue of a sunset seen from my rear terrace. The drilling of the cicadas at noon — the soft dialling tone of the crickets as dusk slowly gathers. A good book, a hammock and a cold, beaded bottle of blanc sec. A rough red wine and steak frites. The cool, dark, shuttered silence of my bedroom — and as I go to sleep the prospect that all this will be available to me again, unchanged, tomorrow. I am there, in France, totally. I went to an evening with Boyd at the Groucho Club in , just before the televising of Any Human Heart, and asked him whether he was as pre-occupied with food as his characters appear to be. He told me he uses food as a 'shortcut' to describe his characters, you can tell a lot about a person from what and how they eat, Another sign of a good book is the number of passages I want to remember and revisit I mark them by turning in the bottom corner of the page — this book was replete with them. It remains one of my all-time favourite reads. I'd been putting this off - or saving it. Either way I had intended to read it on holiday at the end of April, the reason being that I thought it would be a tough book to tackle; not difficult or unenjoyable, but the sort of thing I would need lots of time and proper concentration to really appreciate. However, a few days ago my Kindle broke and, with nothing else available while I wait for it to be replaced, I decided to get stuck in to Any Human Heart. I soon realised that - as with Fingersmit I'd been putting this off - or saving it. I soon realised that - as with Fingersmith , another one I thought dauntingly lengthy but raced through in a matter of days - I had completely underestimated how readable this book would be. It's a big, meaty tome, and certainly an intelligent read, but nevertheless it is an incredibly easy book to enjoy. This journey takes the reader from the mids to the cusp of the s, with so many different international settings I am struggling to remember all of them. There is also an incredible cast of characters, including the many famous names writers, artists etc and public figures most notably the Duke and Duchess of Windsor Logan encounters during his career s. As many others have observed, the narrative is incredibly convincing and authentic. It's only now I've finished the book that I can see how brilliantly Boyd has adapted Logan's voice throughout the different periods of his life. The character's writing constantly evolves, but the change is just that - evolution - absolutely recognisable as the same person, yet subtly developing and adjusting all the time. Reading this made me want to start keeping a paper journal something I did obsessively in youth but very sporadically now again. The relationships, too, are painfully realistic. I kept expecting Land to reappear in Logan's life, right up to the very end, but of course she didn't; if this had been a different lesser? Logan's loveless marriage to Lottie, his never-equalled love for Freya, his unfulfilling relationship with Allanah - all well, most - I wasn't sure about the Monday episode, the only incident in the book that felt like a plot device to move the protagonist from one place to another his interactions are wholly believable. Friends change beyond all recognition; people come in and out of Logan's life, some re-entering unexpectedly; little incidents happen that have nothing to do with anything else; there are surprises, some of them wonderful, some devastating - the stuff of life. It's simultaenously life-affirming, heartbreakingly sad, and funny I couldn't stop laughing at the elderly Logan's assessment of his hospital ward-mate 'No-Fuss'. Do I give this four or five stars? I'm going to go with four, as on a personal level I don't think it will rank with my own absolute favourites, though it is technically 'better' than a number of them. But it's a qualified four, a 9 rather than an 8 out of I don't think I will read the book again in its entirety, but I'm certain I will return to it, if only for the beautifully written, poignant, and inspiring diarised style. NB: I haven't seen the recent TV adaptation; not sure I want to, as the book created such vivid images in my mind and I feel they are sufficient. With the opening Henry James quote, I immediately knew this used bookstore find was a keeper. Structured as the collected diaries of Logan Mountstuart, "Every Human Heart" is the story of a life that spanned most of the twentieth century. Because of the format, the style changes as Logan ages, there are gaps in the story when he didn't feel like writing, he can be touchingly confessional one moment and aggressively self-justifying the next. While he can certainly seem terribly self-involved, lust With the opening Henry James quote, I immediately knew this used bookstore find was a keeper. While he can certainly seem terribly self-involved, lustful and selfish, I found myself liking him very much for his honesty and self- awareness. Sure, he only feels guilty about the stuff he does when he is aware of having dropped in someone's esteem, but when he takes a second to look back at some events, he realizes their importance as turning points into what will become a life lived to the fullest. Watching Logan be shaped by his life is a fascinating process, and I loved the recovered diary format. It captures something very candid about Logan's character that another style would not have carried across as well. It helped me believe in him and sympathize with him tremendously: I wanted to hold his hands through the tough parts and slap him when he was being a complete jerk. It also makes for a messy narrative at times, with some plot lines going unresolved, but that's what life is like, and I really appreciated the realism. I found myself occasionally forgetting that I was reading fiction! People change, grow, are shaped by their experiences and I feel like Boyd captured this long, slow process beautifully; and Logan's voice made the narrative compulsively readable and entertaining. He is in turn kind, thoughtless, passionate, pathetic, sad, endearing and frustrating. As are we all when life decides to knock us around. The time at which Boyd decided to place Logan's birth is very clever, because his adult life then covers most of a rather eventful century, and he ends up bearing witness to most of it's significant events and cultural changes as they are happening. His acquaintances with historical figures of all kinds, from fellow writers Woolfe and Hemingway, to the Duke of Winsdor and Picasso himself - are not just pretentious name-dropping: they are simply people he bumped into at one point or another in his life, worked with or wish he'd never met. He was never as famous or important as them, but he is no less remarkable in his relative anonymity. I feel like this is such a good but quiet book; I found Logan's story moving and strangely comforting, even when it was heartbreaking. In a way, I think I envy all his mis adventures and wanderings. I remember my grandfather's stories about being in the Franciscan order, then playing semi-professional baseball, then becoming a teacher and a headmaster, and it always seemed to me that people of that generation he was born in , passed away in seem like they had lived 10 lives, as where I sometimes feel like I can barely keep this one from going straight off the rails. Of course, the book is saturated with Britishness, which I can't get enough of, but it also strongly carried this spirit that life should be lived as truly and as fully as we can because it is inevitably fleeting. I watched the miniseries that aired on the BBC and I also enjoyed it very much, even if a few elements have been changed. A colleague who saw me reading during a break recommended four other books by Boyd, and after "Any Human Heart", I will definitely keep my eyes peeled for more! View all 7 comments. Oct 04, F. It seems to me to require a level of dedication that even a humble scribbler of fiction like myself would find hard to maintain. The fictional diary then perhaps offers the ideal halfway house for a novelist, allowing the form but without the chore of writing about every single day, no matter how little has actually happened. And certainly one with more oomph than those literary ancestors I mischievously mentioned. This is a man who is there or thereabouts in exciting times, but is also interesting enough himself to make one care about the minutiae of his life. Logan Mountstuart is a bit like Zelig, or maybe Flashman is the better literary comparison — a man who meets more than his share of great people and is perched again and again at the edge of history. He is a novelist in the Thirties, then a wartime spy with Ian Fleming, before becoming an art dealer in New York and then an elderly London anarchist. Much like in a Flashman novel there are footnotes showing how real the characters he meets actually are. Some sections do drag more than others — the African diary, those final years in France — but I found this a fascinating read, both brilliant for someone who likes Twentieth Century history, but also for fans of well crafted and genuinely affecting fiction. A good, male life, lived through almost the entirety of the twentieth century. Or at least, it made for good reading material, but I'd like to think that in the end, Logan was happy in the least regretful sense that an old man can be. I have to say, becoming a writer was probably the best thing he could have done in this time period. He met so many renowned folks, and took part in so many historical events as he traveled the world over. That may be my bias towards writ 4. That may be my bias towards writing over other occupational paths talking, but you have to admit, people like Hemingway and Joyce popping up made the writing especially interesting. And it was in such a natural, unassuming sense. It's only much later that Logan realizes the worth of these chance meetings, and he never really stops being surprised at that being the case. Besides that, I really don't think that the summary of this book does Logan justice. Yes, he accumulated failed marriages as a result of his womanizing, but had the tragedy of WWII not occurred, I believe that this particular trait would have been greatly reduced in his character. Also he didn't end his life in absolute poverty. Unless my definition of poverty is different from the standard. All in all, I really enjoyed reading about this life that interacted so often with the world at large, both in the historical as well as the locational sense. It was also interesting to watch Logan's writing change over time as his life shifted around his values. His last years were especially beautiful, and it's regretful that he had to become a very old man in order to finally appreciate the simple life enough to write about it. But that's what always happens, I suppose. View all 11 comments. Feb 13, Brad Lyerla rated it it was amazing. It is a fine novel and I loved reading it while on vacation. It is great recreational reading. Mountstuart began journaling while still a schoolboy and continued, off and on, until near the time of his death. The arc of his life included: taking a lowly third at Jesus College at Oxford University; success as an author in his 20s he published a serious work of literary criticism and a popular novel during that time ; covering the Spanish Civil War as a journalist; serving in the Royal Naval Intelligence during WWII; being captured by the Swiss? It is a tale of some significant historical sweep. He is married 3 times, once happily. He fathers two children. His life is adventurous and full. But his journal focuses very heavily on his sex life, money problems and drinking. He is bust and flush many times during his tumultuous career. His sex life is vigorous, if not always admirable. And his drinking is Olympian. To fully enjoy this book, I imagine that a reader should know a fair amount about the cultural life of Western Europe and NYC during the last century. If you don't, you may miss many of the connections -- and much of the fun. But I heartily recommend it for everyone else. Dec 07, Stefanie rated it it was ok. Didn't really like it. It's written as a diary, and covers a good chunk of the 20th century. Logan, the diarist, didn't compel me in the slightest, he was flat. Although he experienced some exciting things in his life, from meeting Hemingway and Picasso, to being imprisoned as a spy, I found him boring. I did read it through, which is something I kept hoping to start caring about him. But I never did. Perhaps it's the diary form that disagreed with me- -I think it may be the first of that sty Didn't really like it. Perhaps it's the diary form that disagreed with me--I think it may be the first of that style that I've read. Feb 05, R. This is not my favorite book, this is not the most lofty book I've ever read, its not going to break into the top ten list although I think it has become cemented into the top 20 However, It was a total page turner that kept me up late and wishing my subway rides would last longer but some how managed to feel important and slightly intellectual at the same time. It was amazing and I'm afraid to even recommend it because if you don't love it as much as I did it will break my heart. There are man This is not my favorite book, this is not the most lofty book I've ever read, its not going to break into the top ten list although I think it has become cemented into the top 20 However, It was a total page turner that kept me up late and wishing my subway rides would last longer but some how managed to feel important and slightly intellectual at the same time. There are many things about this book that just shouldn't work- how is this seemingly slightly above average guy some how involved with half of the major events of the 20th century? How can a dairy format possibly create such strong characters and engaging dialogue? Isn't he just a tad pretensions? William Boyd manages to overcome all of these problems and create an interesting and somehow utterly believable main character. If you like books that feature disgruntled British writers, famous modern artists and authors, World War II and British History, sexual encounters mixed with some unrequited love and loss, then you will likely be interested in this book. If, like me, you love all of the above then you will be obsessed with this book. For a plot summary or things of that nature check out other Goodreads reviews or amazon. I just had to share a few thoughts on this book just in case you are waiting to read it and will absolutely adore it but just don't know it yet! Loved the early chapters recapturing Logan's boarding school days , and his trials and tribulations within his peer group, then the teenage anxieties negotiating various rites of passage, and the passages dealing with the Duke of Windsor, but got bogged down in mid section when Logan is imprisoned in Switzerland. Not sure that, for me, the book really recovered after that prolonged incarceration. And, added in April I remember hearing Ian McEwan interviewed and saying that he hoped his Loved the early chapters recapturing Logan's boarding school days , and his trials and tribulations within his peer group, then the teenage anxieties negotiating various rites of passage, and the passages dealing with the Duke of Windsor, but got bogged down in mid section when Logan is imprisoned in Switzerland. This William Boyd novel is similarly challenging, and maybe some books lend themselves better than others to a slow reading, episode by episode. May 24, Katie Lumsden rated it liked it. I have such complicated mixed feelings about this. I love the scope of it, how it spans one man's life from his teens to his 70s, from the s to the s, how it covers so much British and global history. I loved the format and found the writing and some of the themes very interesting. However, the narrator is very sexist and sexualises every woman he meets, which aside from being problematic also gets quite repetitive over the course of the book. I first read Any Human Heart ten years ago, and my short, five star review reflected much to like, though I had a much lesser interest in reading widely at that time. This was my original review: If you like William Boyd, this will not disappoint. Written in the style of diary entries spanning life from birth to death. Historical events provide a recognisable structure and our diarist inserts himself into history. World War ll, Hemingway, Picasso. Logan Mountstuart traverses a life from establishme I first read Any Human Heart ten years ago, and my short, five star review reflected much to like, though I had a much lesser interest in reading widely at that time. Logan Mountstuart traverses a life from establishment figure to itinerant drifter and destitution. Maybe the dog food we give our pets isn't so bad after all??! Mountstuart is married three times, and just as life's great optimism expressed in marital union is unfortunately frequently dashed; so too is the book's conclusion that happiness is a lingering, transitory state. A rather sad book overall. On my re read I have taken off a star, and this time around I'm conscious of weak sections. There are passages of excellence but not always sustained. I was prompted to revisit after attending a Boyd lecture no interlocutor, no questions this week Nov The Many Fictions of William Boyd. After a thirty five year writing career, and extensive experience in the movie industry, Boyd's own life does mirror that of Logan Mountstuart, in places. In his talk Boyd explained clearly that his deliberate style of "reality" writing is one that has fascinated him though he says he is now done with cradle to grave novels. Any Human Heart was mentioned a lot, and Boyd's observations on his writing oeuvre ; realistic novels, writing about real people are central to the book. A writer who "creates characters whose psychology reflects the external world of the writer's memories, dreams, and nightmares, or his experiences of the time and space in which he lives". Returning to the book itself, I most enjoyed Mountstuart in reflective, old, age. This in part is due to Boyd's laying off the testosterone driven, sex motivated, male characterisation. This charming seducer does appear rather too frequently in Boyd's writing for my liking. Of Boyd's introduced real life 20th century public figures, the portrayal of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor is particularly well done. And ten years after my first read I laughed again as Mountstuart tucked into Bowsers dog food, with its rabbit chunklets! The writing is captivating, 70 odd years of escapades, heartbreak, moderate promiscuity and lots of alcohol. The sliding doors of his life, traversing the 20th century are reminiscent of Forest Gump sans the low IQ with some characters just as i imagined Hemingway — drunk, impulsive, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor — vapid, vain , and others not so much — Virginia Woolf as a florid racist? For LMS it was a disaster. Its absurdity and malevolent chaos taking from him, like it did for millions, everything. It seems sometimes as though his level of loss and pain was beyond the credible; and other times, so, his good fortune and timing. But what a fantastic story! The details are recorded with integrity, from the droll pg. 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After that, though still intermittently brilliant, it rather loses focus and momentum. But then so do all too many of our human lives. We first meet him in as a senior at boarding school, preparing for entrance to Oxford. His two best friends there will stay in touch: one follows in Logan's shoes as a novelist; another becomes an art dealer, and much later will get Logan to run his gallery in New York. Logan himself is an eclectic writer, coming out with books and articles of literary and art criticism as well as a couple of novels. Meanwhile, he meets many of the artistic and social figures of the day: Virginia Woolf whom he could not stand , Hemingway who helps him at a crucial moment in Spain , Picasso who dashes off a quick sketch that later supports him at a bad period , Ian Fleming who gives him an intelligence job in the war , and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor a more complicated story culminating in a true incident that shows the former King in a very bad light. In many ways, the novel covers much the same ground as the twelve-volume cycle A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, who also makes a brief appearance in Boyd's novel. The main difference, other than its briefer and less patrician nature, is the introduction of real figures and events. As one who generally avoids non-fiction, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this quasi-factual element. Logan's voice is honest and attractive, and Boyd's quasi-scholarly "editing" complete with footnotes and even an index is masterly. So long as events were reasonably continuous, I was hooked. I think I could have done with less of Logan's life as a lover, for although there is true love in there somewhere, he is insufficiently able to control his libido, and exhibits an unerring instinct for sexual self-sabotage. All the same, I was in clear five-star territory until the final third. But then something of Logan's high-flying ability deserts him. During an altercation in New York, someone calls him a loser. Reflecting on it later, Logan realizing that the term is more of an insult for an American than a European, who normally expects his life to wind down. But looking back, I believe I can see a pattern to my own life, certainly a more or less consistent set of guiding principles. With Logan Mountstuart, however, that is harder, especially as the journals become more spaced out, no longer following a continuum, but tracing a series of mere anecdotes. He spends time in Nigeria at the time of the Biafran war; he crosses paths with the Baader-Meinhof gang; he runs into ugly memories of the German Occupation and French Resistance. All interesting in themselves—but what happened to the lust for life that carried this splendid protagonist well into his forties? What, alas! Sep 27, T. I was a child who loved lots and lots of things and hated only a few, but I did both with great passion. It was all love or hate with not much in between. Of course, that's what being a child is like for many of us. But there was always some smartypants kid cynical by age ten who would sneer at anyone making an adoring comment about an object they cherished and say, "Well, if you love it so much why don't you marry it? 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. The meetings with Hemingway, Picasso, Woolf etc all fit seamlessly into the novel, imbuing it with culture and intellectualism without ever any hint of name-dropping contrivance, implausibility or elitism. It stayed with me for ages - this is the literary equivalent of a nine-course meal with a great bottle of wine. Deeply satisfying. The final pages, when Logan has moved to France are beautifully poignant and evocative. He has moved to the Midi, where his penury pinches less and his slender means go farther. Hot crumpets with butter and jam — what could be more ambrosial? Munching the knob off a fresh baguette as I wander back from Saint-Sabine. The farinaceous smell of the white dust raised by a breeze from the driveway. A cuckoo sounding in the perfectly silent woods beyond the meadow. The huge grey, cerise, pink, orange and washed-out blue of a sunset seen from my rear terrace. The drilling of the cicadas at noon — the soft dialling tone of the crickets as dusk slowly gathers. A good book, a hammock and a cold, beaded bottle of blanc sec. A rough red wine and steak frites. The cool, dark, shuttered silence of my bedroom — and as I go to sleep the prospect that all this will be available to me again, unchanged, tomorrow. I am there, in France, totally. I went to an evening with Boyd at the Groucho Club in , just before the televising of Any Human Heart, and asked him whether he was as pre- occupied with food as his characters appear to be. He told me he uses food as a 'shortcut' to describe his characters, you can tell a lot about a person from what and how they eat, Another sign of a good book is the number of passages I want to remember and revisit I mark them by turning in the bottom corner of the page — this book was replete with them. It remains one of my all-time favourite reads. I'd been putting this off - or saving it. Either way I had intended to read it on holiday at the end of April, the reason being that I thought it would be a tough book to tackle; not difficult or unenjoyable, but the sort of thing I would need lots of time and proper concentration to really appreciate. However, a few days ago my Kindle broke and, with nothing else available while I wait for it to be replaced, I decided to get stuck in to Any Human Heart. I soon realised that - as with Fingersmit I'd been putting this off - or saving it. I soon realised that - as with Fingersmith , another one I thought dauntingly lengthy but raced through in a matter of days - I had completely underestimated how readable this book would be. It's a big, meaty tome, and certainly an intelligent read, but nevertheless it is an incredibly easy book to enjoy. This journey takes the reader from the mids to the cusp of the s, with so many different international settings I am struggling to remember all of them. There is also an incredible cast of characters, including the many famous names writers, artists etc and public figures most notably the Duke and Duchess of Windsor Logan encounters during his career s. As many others have observed, the narrative is incredibly convincing and authentic. It's only now I've finished the book that I can see how brilliantly Boyd has adapted Logan's voice throughout the different periods of his life. The character's writing constantly evolves, but the change is just that - evolution - absolutely recognisable as the same person, yet subtly developing and adjusting all the time. Reading this made me want to start keeping a paper journal something I did obsessively in youth but very sporadically now again. The relationships, too, are painfully realistic. I kept expecting Land to reappear in Logan's life, right up to the very end, but of course she didn't; if this had been a different lesser? Logan's loveless marriage to Lottie, his never-equalled love for Freya, his unfulfilling relationship with Allanah - all well, most - I wasn't sure about the Monday episode, the only incident in the book that felt like a plot device to move the protagonist from one place to another his interactions are wholly believable. Friends change beyond all recognition; people come in and out of Logan's life, some re-entering unexpectedly; little incidents happen that have nothing to do with anything else; there are surprises, some of them wonderful, some devastating - the stuff of life. It's simultaenously life-affirming, heartbreakingly sad, and funny I couldn't stop laughing at the elderly Logan's assessment of his hospital ward-mate 'No-Fuss'. Do I give this four or five stars? I'm going to go with four, as on a personal level I don't think it will rank with my own absolute favourites, though it is technically 'better' than a number of them. But it's a qualified four, a 9 rather than an 8 out of I don't think I will read the book again in its entirety, but I'm certain I will return to it, if only for the beautifully written, poignant, and inspiring diarised style. NB: I haven't seen the recent TV adaptation; not sure I want to, as the book created such vivid images in my mind and I feel they are sufficient. With the opening Henry James quote, I immediately knew this used bookstore find was a keeper. Structured as the collected diaries of Logan Mountstuart, "Every Human Heart" is the story of a life that spanned most of the twentieth century. Because of the format, the style changes as Logan ages, there are gaps in the story when he didn't feel like writing, he can be touchingly confessional one moment and aggressively self- justifying the next. While he can certainly seem terribly self-involved, lust With the opening Henry James quote, I immediately knew this used bookstore find was a keeper. While he can certainly seem terribly self-involved, lustful and selfish, I found myself liking him very much for his honesty and self- awareness. Sure, he only feels guilty about the stuff he does when he is aware of having dropped in someone's esteem, but when he takes a second to look back at some events, he realizes their importance as turning points into what will become a life lived to the fullest. Watching Logan be shaped by his life is a fascinating process, and I loved the recovered diary format. It captures something very candid about Logan's character that another style would not have carried across as well. It helped me believe in him and sympathize with him tremendously: I wanted to hold his hands through the tough parts and slap him when he was being a complete jerk. It also makes for a messy narrative at times, with some plot lines going unresolved, but that's what life is like, and I really appreciated the realism. I found myself occasionally forgetting that I was reading fiction! People change, grow, are shaped by their experiences and I feel like Boyd captured this long, slow process beautifully; and Logan's voice made the narrative compulsively readable and entertaining. He is in turn kind, thoughtless, passionate, pathetic, sad, endearing and frustrating. As are we all when life decides to knock us around. The time at which Boyd decided to place Logan's birth is very clever, because his adult life then covers most of a rather eventful century, and he ends up bearing witness to most of it's significant events and cultural changes as they are happening. His acquaintances with historical figures of all kinds, from fellow writers Woolfe and Hemingway, to the Duke of Winsdor and Picasso himself - are not just pretentious name-dropping: they are simply people he bumped into at one point or another in his life, worked with or wish he'd never met. He was never as famous or important as them, but he is no less remarkable in his relative anonymity. I feel like this is such a good but quiet book; I found Logan's story moving and strangely comforting, even when it was heartbreaking. In a way, I think I envy all his mis adventures and wanderings. I remember my grandfather's stories about being in the Franciscan order, then playing semi- professional baseball, then becoming a teacher and a headmaster, and it always seemed to me that people of that generation he was born in , passed away in seem like they had lived 10 lives, as where I sometimes feel like I can barely keep this one from going straight off the rails. Of course, the book is saturated with Britishness, which I can't get enough of, but it also strongly carried this spirit that life should be lived as truly and as fully as we can because it is inevitably fleeting. I watched the miniseries that aired on the BBC and I also enjoyed it very much, even if a few elements have been changed. A colleague who saw me reading during a break recommended four other books by Boyd, and after "Any Human Heart", I will definitely keep my eyes peeled for more! View all 7 comments. Oct 04, F. It seems to me to require a level of dedication that even a humble scribbler of fiction like myself would find hard to maintain. The fictional diary then perhaps offers the ideal halfway house for a novelist, allowing the form but without the chore of writing about every single day, no matter how little has actually happened. And certainly one with more oomph than those literary ancestors I mischievously mentioned. This is a man who is there or thereabouts in exciting times, but is also interesting enough himself to make one care about the minutiae of his life. Logan Mountstuart is a bit like Zelig, or maybe Flashman is the better literary comparison — a man who meets more than his share of great people and is perched again and again at the edge of history. He is a novelist in the Thirties, then a wartime spy with Ian Fleming, before becoming an art dealer in New York and then an elderly London anarchist. Much like in a Flashman novel there are footnotes showing how real the characters he meets actually are. Some sections do drag more than others — the African diary, those final years in France — but I found this a fascinating read, both brilliant for someone who likes Twentieth Century history, but also for fans of well crafted and genuinely affecting fiction. A good, male life, lived through almost the entirety of the twentieth century. Or at least, it made for good reading material, but I'd like to think that in the end, Logan was happy in the least regretful sense that an old man can be. I have to say, becoming a writer was probably the best thing he could have done in this time period. He met so many renowned folks, and took part in so many historical events as he traveled the world over. That may be my bias towards writ 4. That may be my bias towards writing over other occupational paths talking, but you have to admit, people like Hemingway and Joyce popping up made the writing especially interesting. And it was in such a natural, unassuming sense. It's only much later that Logan realizes the worth of these chance meetings, and he never really stops being surprised at that being the case. Besides that, I really don't think that the summary of this book does Logan justice. Yes, he accumulated failed marriages as a result of his womanizing, but had the tragedy of WWII not occurred, I believe that this particular trait would have been greatly reduced in his character. Also he didn't end his life in absolute poverty. Unless my definition of poverty is different from the standard. All in all, I really enjoyed reading about this life that interacted so often with the world at large, both in the historical as well as the locational sense. It was also interesting to watch Logan's writing change over time as his life shifted around his values. His last years were especially beautiful, and it's regretful that he had to become a very old man in order to finally appreciate the simple life enough to write about it. But that's what always happens, I suppose. View all 11 comments. Feb 13, Brad Lyerla rated it it was amazing. It is a fine novel and I loved reading it while on vacation. It is great recreational reading. Mountstuart began journaling while still a schoolboy and continued, off and on, until near the time of his death. The arc of his life included: taking a lowly third at Jesus College at Oxford University; success as an author in his 20s he published a serious work of literary criticism and a popular novel during that time ; covering the Spanish Civil War as a journalist; serving in the Royal Naval Intelligence during WWII; being captured by the Swiss? It is a tale of some significant historical sweep. He is married 3 times, once happily. He fathers two children. His life is adventurous and full. But his journal focuses very heavily on his sex life, money problems and drinking. He is bust and flush many times during his tumultuous career. His sex life is vigorous, if not always admirable. And his drinking is Olympian. To fully enjoy this book, I imagine that a reader should know a fair amount about the cultural life of Western Europe and NYC during the last century. If you don't, you may miss many of the connections -- and much of the fun. But I heartily recommend it for everyone else. Dec 07, Stefanie rated it it was ok. Didn't really like it. It's written as a diary, and covers a good chunk of the 20th century. Logan, the diarist, didn't compel me in the slightest, he was flat. Although he experienced some exciting things in his life, from meeting Hemingway and Picasso, to being imprisoned as a spy, I found him boring. I did read it through, which is something I kept hoping to start caring about him. But I never did. Perhaps it's the diary form that disagreed with me--I think it may be the first of that sty Didn't really like it. Perhaps it's the diary form that disagreed with me--I think it may be the first of that style that I've read. Feb 05, R. This is not my favorite book, this is not the most lofty book I've ever read, its not going to break into the top ten list although I think it has become cemented into the top 20 However, It was a total page turner that kept me up late and wishing my subway rides would last longer but some how managed to feel important and slightly intellectual at the same time. It was amazing and I'm afraid to even recommend it because if you don't love it as much as I did it will break my heart. There are man This is not my favorite book, this is not the most lofty book I've ever read, its not going to break into the top ten list although I think it has become cemented into the top 20 However, It was a total page turner that kept me up late and wishing my subway rides would last longer but some how managed to feel important and slightly intellectual at the same time. There are many things about this book that just shouldn't work- how is this seemingly slightly above average guy some how involved with half of the major events of the 20th century? How can a dairy format possibly create such strong characters and engaging dialogue? Isn't he just a tad pretensions? William Boyd manages to overcome all of these problems and create an interesting and somehow utterly believable main character. If you like books that feature disgruntled British writers, famous modern artists and authors, World War II and British History, sexual encounters mixed with some unrequited love and loss, then you will likely be interested in this book. If, like me, you love all of the above then you will be obsessed with this book. For a plot summary or things of that nature check out other Goodreads reviews or amazon. I just had to share a few thoughts on this book just in case you are waiting to read it and will absolutely adore it but just don't know it yet! Loved the early chapters recapturing Logan's boarding school days , and his trials and tribulations within his peer group, then the teenage anxieties negotiating various rites of passage, and the passages dealing with the Duke of Windsor, but got bogged down in mid section when Logan is imprisoned in Switzerland. Not sure that, for me, the book really recovered after that prolonged incarceration. And, added in April I remember hearing Ian McEwan interviewed and saying that he hoped his Loved the early chapters recapturing Logan's boarding school days , and his trials and tribulations within his peer group, then the teenage anxieties negotiating various rites of passage, and the passages dealing with the Duke of Windsor, but got bogged down in mid section when Logan is imprisoned in Switzerland. This William Boyd novel is similarly challenging, and maybe some books lend themselves better than others to a slow reading, episode by episode. May 24, Katie Lumsden rated it liked it. I have such complicated mixed feelings about this. I love the scope of it, how it spans one man's life from his teens to his 70s, from the s to the s, how it covers so much British and global history. I loved the format and found the writing and some of the themes very interesting. However, the narrator is very sexist and sexualises every woman he meets, which aside from being problematic also gets quite repetitive over the course of the book. I first read Any Human Heart ten years ago, and my short, five star review reflected much to like, though I had a much lesser interest in reading widely at that time. This was my original review: If you like William Boyd, this will not disappoint. Written in the style of diary entries spanning life from birth to death. Historical events provide a recognisable structure and our diarist inserts himself into history. World War ll, Hemingway, Picasso. Logan Mountstuart traverses a life from establishme I first read Any Human Heart ten years ago, and my short, five star review reflected much to like, though I had a much lesser interest in reading widely at that time. On returning to England, he suffers a nervous breakdown. It later turns out that his betrayal to the Swiss may have been Edward and Mrs Simpson's revenge upon him. Logan runs into them again on New York's 5th Avenue in the s. They can do their worst now. They scramble into their limousine and are swept away. The characterisation of these public figures is superb - especially Mrs Simpson as a kind of nightmare granny - but unknown characters also spring to life. There are some wonderful vignettes of Logan's mother in increasingly reduced circumstances. 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 Jim Broadbent embodies weariness and Matthew Macfadyen gives a career-best turn. The production values for this are top- notch and the story draws the viewer in from the very beginning. I repeat, outstanding. Looking for some great streaming picks? 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