Memoir from Antproof Case: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Helprin, Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151000972 ISBN 13 : 9780151000975

Editeur : Harcourt Brace International, 1995

Synopsis

Book by Helprin Mark

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From Mark Helprin, acclaimed author of A Soldier of the Great War and A Winter's Tale, comes a miraculous song of the twentieth century.

In a mountain garden in Brazil, an old American is writing his memoirs, placing the pages carefully in his antproof case. As he reminisces we learn he was a World War II ace who was shot down twice, an investment banker who met with popes and presidents, a multimillionaire, a man who was never not in love. He spent his adolescence in an insane asylum in Switzerland; 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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mark Helprin was educated at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford and served in the Israeli Army, Israeli Air Force, and British Merchant Navy. He is the author of, among other titles, A Dove of the East and Other Stories, Refiner’s Fire, Winter’s Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War. He lives in Virginia.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harcourt Brace International
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0151000972
• ISBN 13: 9780151000975
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 514