Memoir from Antproof Case
by Helprin, Mark
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0151000972
- ISBN 13
- 9780151000975
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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
- World of Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GOR004369026
- Title
- Memoir from Antproof Case
- Author
- Helprin, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151000972
- ISBN 13
- 9780151000975
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1995
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