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Any Human Heart
Logan Mountstuart records his life in journals that carry him from an Edwardian childhood and Oxford in the 1920s through literary London, Paris, the Second World War and the cultural upheavals of the post-war decades. Success as a writer brings him into the orbit of celebrated artists and authors, while love affairs, marriages and friendships repeatedly alter the direction of his life.
War turns Logan into an intelligence officer and eventually a prisoner; later years take him through New York’s art world, political radicalism, poverty and old age. Famous figures appear beside invented friends and lovers without displacing the intimate scale of the diary. The result is a panoramic twentieth-century life story in which public history repeatedly intrudes on private hopes, failures and reinventions.
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