Memoir from Antproof Case

作者:Mark Helprin

页数:0

出版时间:1996-5

价格:135.60

isbn号码:9780380727339

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

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<p>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.</p>