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/ Let it be said at once, this is an excellent picaresque novel, written in a confident, easy-going style that disarms criticism. At first sight the epigraph, from Henry James - 'Never say you know the last word about any human heart' - would seem to be inapposite, since the protagonist and narrator, Logan Mountstuart, journeys through the 20th century in remarkably good form, sustained by health, luck, physical endurance, an alert sensitivity to what would be an advantageous career move, and sexual appetites which only rarely let him down. Not much evidence of the human heart there, but rather the sort of rough assurance which is so notably absent in Henry James himself.
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