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ANY HUMAN HEART | 
| Author: William Boyd
Publisher: Unknown
Category: Book
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 0143014609
EAN: 9780143014607
ASIN: 0143014609
Publication Date: 2003
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| Customer Reviews: Read 49 more reviews...
 Great read October 23, 2008
I really enjoyed this book, eventhough it took me a while to get into it. I found the middle and latter part of his life much more intesting. It was very intersting to observe the change in his character and in his fortunes from a successful, popular, weathly younger man into an eldery, more humble, caring person who died alone. I didn't particularly like him as a younger/middle aged man, but began to sympathise with him as he faced death. Very easy to read and based on this, I would definitely try another of this author's books.
 A little in the style of Lees-Milne August 22, 2008
A wonderful creation. William Boyd must have read some of James Lees-Milne's diaries for this imaginative novel contains the nuances of the various decades of the twentieth century evoked by the great diarist himself.
ANATOMY OF A LIFE SPANNING THE 20th CENTURY July 21, 2008
Written in diary form, this novel describes the life and times of Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, born in 1906 in Montevideo to an English father and his Uruguayan wife, who later moves with his family to England just before the First World War, and takes the reader from the 1920s to the 1990s.
This is an incredible, thoroughly engaging novel which gives the reader entree into the ups and downs, the fullness of a man's life who travelled widely and knew many of the literary, social and artistic notables of the century (e.g. Picasso, Virginia Wolff, Hemingway, and Jackson Pollack). I enjoyed this book so much I almost hated for it to end!
The Funky Art Cafe Varkala Kerala India Babu May 26, 2008
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
I had the misfortune of reading this book whilst sitting in this bar in India,the staff were busy spiking drinks and dragging semi conscious western women to the 'chill out room' for some non consensual fun,so I warn all who see this entry not to go there at any cost, there is an air of malevolent discontent that is disturbing and pungent,...... avoid,avoid avoid,......... you have been warned.
Truly a modern classic March 31, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
A rare wordsmith at his best. Irresistible. Not least a gentle insight into 20th century history. Empathy to, and subtlety of human life is laid bare with remarkable skill. You will not be disappointed.
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