Memoir from Antproof Case - 9780156032001
Un libro in lingua di Mark Helprin edito da Mariner Books, 2007
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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.
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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Memoir from Antproof Case
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Mark Helprin
- Editore: Mariner Books
- Collana: Mariner Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 06 Agosto '07
- Genere: FICTION
- Pagine: 514
- Dimensioni mm: 196 x 133 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0156032007
- EAN-13: 9780156032001