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An edition of Memoir from Antproof Case: a novel (1995)

Memoir from Antproof Case

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An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. An English teacher at the navel 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 Niteroi, overlooking the ocean, and carries with him a Walther P-88.

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; a multimillionaire; and a man who was never not in love. He was the thief of the century, a murderer, and a protector of the innocent. In his adolescence he spent years in an insane asylum in Switzerland.

And all his life, he waged a valiant, losing, one-man battle against the world's most insidious enslaver: coffee. Mark Helprin's astounding prose combines adventure, satire, flights of transcendence, and high comedy with vivid and poignant memories of a Hudson Valley and New York City that no longer exist.

Publish Date
Publisher
Wheeler Pub.
Language
English
Pages
602

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Cover of: Memoir From Antproof Case
Memoir From Antproof Case
August 6, 2007, Harvest Books
Paperback in English - Reprint edition
Cover of: Memoir from Antproof Case
Memoir from Antproof Case: a novel
1995, Harcourt Brace & Co.
in English
Cover of: Memoir from Antproof Case
Memoir from Antproof Case
1995, Wheeler Pub.
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Rockland, MA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3558.E4775 M46 1995b

The Physical Object

Pagination
602 p. (large print) ;
Number of pages
602

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL798476M
Internet Archive
memoirfromantpro0000help_g8v2
ISBN 10
1568952562
LCCN
95034675
Library Thing
7026
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
3222643

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