Drinker, Writer, Lover, Spy

摘要

There is a secret, shameful part of every American that longs to attend a small, quaint, exclusive boarding school in the English countryside. The crack of the cricket bat, the furtive cigarettes, the obligatory corporal punishment―like buried memories from our Colonial past, they arouse atavistic, Anglo-philic urges. Some people get their Brit fix from Harry Potter, They will get that, and much more, from William Boyd's brilliant, beautiful and exceptionally British Any Human Heart (Knopf; 498 pages).