{"product_id":"memoir-from-antproof-case-paperback","title":"Memoir from Antproof Case - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Helprin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSplendidly entertaining . . . Joyce and Nabokov could produce verbal astonishments as readily. Not many others come to mind. --\"Time \"\u003cbr\u003eAn old American sits in a mountain garden in Brazil, writing his memoirs. 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.\u003cbr\u003eIn this novel, Mark Helprin s astounding prose combines adventure, satire, flights of transcendence, and high comedy ina \"memoir\" of a man whose life reads like the song of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\"Extravagant, daring . . . full of unexpected jolts of laugh-out-loud comedy . . . Helprin is one of the most ambitious novelists of our day.\" --\"The Washington Post Book World\" \u003cbr\u003e Stunning . . . [Helprin] speaks with the tongues of angels. \"San Francisco\"\" Chronicle\"\u003cbr\u003eEducated at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford, Mark Helprin served in the Israeli army, Israeli Air Force, and British Merchant Navy. He is the author of \"Refiner's Fire, A Dove of the East and Other Stories, Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Ellis Island and Other Stories, The Pacific and Other Stories, \" and \"Freddy and Fredericka. \"He lives in Virginia.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.93 x 7.94 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53464676892979,"sku":"9780156032001","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/OQibA2Iz6H9780156032001.webp?v=1781382008","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/memoir-from-antproof-case-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}