Any Human Heart
by William Boyd
Taste attributes: dramahistoricalromancerealisticintricatelinearglossybig & variedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshiphuman spirit/resilience/survivalsocial commentary
Boxlist takeWide-ranging and intricate: a grounded novel. Best if you like spectacle over intimacy.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: intricate · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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4.3 / 5
3 ratings
About This Book
ANY HUMAN HEART is an ambitious, all-encompassing novel. Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his friends and colleagues, his rivals, enemies and lovers, including notables such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf.
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- Author
- William Boyd
- Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 503
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- Open Library
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