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Memoir From Antproof Case

Memoir From Antproof Case

Memoir From Antproof Case
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Memoir From Antproof Case

by Helprin, Mark

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Foxing along page edges (not affecting the text or margins) other a clean good hard cover book/ small faint stain on rear dust j
ISBN 10
0151000972
ISBN 13
9780151000975
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NY: Harcourt Brace, 1995. 1st printing of 1st US edition. Foxing along page edges (not affecting the text or margins) other a clean good hard cover book/ small faint stain on rear dust jacket panel otherwise a near fine dust jacket.

Synopsis

An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. An English teacher at the naval academy, he is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter and has a little son whom he loves. He sits in a mountain garden in Niterói, overlooking the ocean. As he reminisces and writes, placing the pages carefully in his antproof case, we learn that he was a World War II ace who was shot down twice, an investment banker who met with popes and presidents, and a man who was never not in love. He was the thief of the century, a murderer, and a protector of the innocent. And all his life he waged a valiant, losing, one-man battle against the world’s most insidious enslaver: coffee. Mark Helprin combines adventure, satire, flights of transcendence, and high comedy in this "memoir" of a man whose life reads like the song of the twentieth century.

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Bookseller
Lorrin Wong, Bookseller US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
2020711
Title
Memoir From Antproof Case
Author
Helprin, Mark
Book Condition
Used - Foxing along page edges (not affecting the text or margins) other a clean good hard cover book/ small faint stain on rear dust j
Edition
1st printing of 1st US edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0151000972
ISBN 13
9780151000975
Publisher
NY: Harcourt Brace
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1995

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