{"product_id":"memoir-from-antproof-case-isbn-9780156032001","title":"Memoir From Antproof Case","description":"\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 | \u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR MEMOIR FROM ANTPROOF CASE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A prize performance . . . A funny, extravagant, prodigal piece of writing . . . rapturous and melancholy . . . its power never flags.\"—THE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Splendidly entertaining . . . Joyce and Nabokov could produce verbal astonishments as readily. Not many others come to mind.\"—TIME\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889876660453,"sku":"NP9780156032001","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780156032001.jpg?v=1730232094","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/memoir-from-antproof-case-isbn-9780156032001","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}