Memoir From Antproof Case - Couverture souple

Helprin, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156032007 ISBN 13 : 9780156032001

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Helprin Mark

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

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: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0156032007
• ISBN 13: 9780156032001
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 528