Any Human Heart : A Novel.
Boyd, William.
Place Published: New York, NY, U.S.A.:
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group,
Date Published: 2003.
Description: STATED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION. 498 pages with index. The book is NEAR FINE. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor edgewear and small closed tear to front cover bottom edge. Publisher's sticker on cover "Best of the Year 2003 TIME". NOT price-clipped. Comes with a BRODART acrylic jacket cover. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. Dust jacket reads: "a novel that evokes the tumult, events and iconic faces of our time, as it tells the story of Logan Mountstuart--writer, lover and man of the world--through his intimate journals. Here is the 'riotous and disorganized reality' of Mountstuart's eighty-five years in all their extraordinary, tragic and humorous aspects. The journals begin with his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay; the move to Oxford in 1920s and the publication of his first book; then on to Paris (where he meets Joyce, Picasso, Hemingway, et al.) and to Spain where he covers the civil war. During World War II, we see him as an agent for Naval Intelligence, becoming embroiled in a murder scandal that involves the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The postwar years bring him to New York as an art dealer in the world of 1950s abstract expressionism, then on to West Africa, to London (where he has a run-in with the Baader-Meinhof Gang) and, finally, to France where, in his old age, he acquires a measure of hard-won serenity. A moving, ambitious and richly conceived novel that summons up the heroics and follies of twentieth-century life."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 0375414932
Book Id: 5996
Price: $21.50
