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Best-selling creator William Boyd-the novelist that has been called a "master storyteller" (Chicago Tribune) and "a gutsy copy writer who is good company to keep" (Time)-here provides us his most engaging, sly, and convincing novel to date. The novel evokes the tumult, events, and iconic faces of our own time as it tells the story of Logan Mountstuart-writer, fan, and man of the world-through his romantic journals. It covers the "riotous and disorganized truth" of Mountstuart's 85 years in all their remarkable, tragic, and funny aspects. The journals commence along with his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, then proceed to Oxford in the 1920s and the publication of his first reserve, then to Paris where he fulfills Joyce, Picasso, Hemingway, et al., and to Spain, where he covers the civil war. During World Warfare II, we see him as an agent for naval intellect, becoming embroiled in a murder scandal which involves the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The postwar years bring him to NY as an art dealer in the world of 1950s abstract expressionism, then 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 way of measuring hard-won serenity. That is a moving, ambitious, and richly conceived novel that summons the heroics and follies of 20th-century life.
