Memoir from Antproof Case
by Helprin, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Loganberry Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57836203
- Title
- Memoir from Antproof Case
- Author
- Helprin, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover w/DJ
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1/1/1995
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