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Original Title:	Memoir from Antproof Case
ISBN:	0380727331 (ISBN13: 9780380727339)
Edition Language:	English

Memoir from Antproof Case

Mark Helprin

Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

Rating: 4 | 2617 Users | 202 Reviews

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Title	:	Memoir from Antproof Case
Author	:	Mark Helprin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1996 by Harper Perennial (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Magical Realism. Literary Fiction

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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.

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This is another book that's been sitting unread for years on my shelf. It's a hardcover, more than 500 pages thick, its book jacket illustrated to look like the case of the title bound in twine. Every time my hand hesitated over it while selecting something to read, the large, refined serif letters drawled Literature with a self-important L, and I sighed and moved on.But I tackled it this time, and found it neither as heavy handed nor as culturally snotty as I feared. I'd forgotten that Mark

Wonderful old-fashioned storytelling.

This is a seriously overlooked book in American Literature - and will hopefully earn its place someday on the "must read" list for high school seniors or something. Okay, its a TOME, but so rewarding. Funny and magical and a gorgeous read. HOWEVER, after falling for this book, I went out an immediately tried to read everything else that Helprin has written and was pretty disappointed. I think this is his one brilliance.

I'm not sure what I can add about this book that hasn't already been said, save for how I felt about it. I mean, it's Helprin, so the writing is crisp and tight, and the story is entertaining - so there's always a sort of appreciation for how well he does things. But subtracting from this very interesting and odd story is the level of absurdity. The villains are not deep or profound. The things that bother the protagonist are banal and odd. Instead of showing a fighter pilot who fought nazis,

...the world is somewhat like a piece of paper: it can be folded only a fixed number of times, and then it refuses further adjustment.A gentleman with a strict aversion to coffee writes a memoir and keeps it in an antproof case (which happens to be the last surviving case in the world). His life has been an amazing adventure, from orphan to WWII air ace to husband of a billionairess to gold bullion robber to South American pensioner. The hinge of the story appears to be his intense hatred of the

The first thing that you have to know about Mark Helprin is that he combines the genre of historical fiction with the genre of fantasy. His novels are based on solid historical settings, but they are not exactly realistic, and Helprin intended them this way. His novel "A Winter's Tale", which was recently made into a movie, is very much this way. It is not realistic at all. "Memoir from an Antproof Case" is a bit more realistic, but it's still a fantasy. It should be read that way. Reading

I loved this book. Everything about it. The narrator. The memories. Even the skipping around in his life. I loved the language and the humor and the attention to millions of details. Im passing it on to a like-minded reader. ❤