Memoir from Antproof Case (New Ed.)
Author(s): Mark Helprin
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 Niter? i, 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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PRAISE FOR MEMOIR FROM ANTPROOF CASE"A prize performance . . . A funny, extravagant, prodigal piece of writing . . . rapturous and melancholy . . . its power never flags."--THE NEW YORK TIMES"Splendidly entertaining . . . Joyce and Nabokov could produce verbal astonishments as readily. Not many others come to mind."--TIME
General Fields
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- : 9010000000000029038
- : 9010000000000029038
- : 0.431
- : 01 August 2007
- : 202mm X 142mm X 24mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Mark Helprin
- : Paperback / softback
- : 813.54
- : 514