Better to Bury Than to Burn
by Ian T. Taylor (SWIGNED)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0969178875
- ISBN 13
- 9780969178873
- Seller
-
Lyndhurst, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Lower Beverley Better Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000380
- Title
- Better to Bury Than to Burn
- Author
- Ian T. Taylor (SWIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- No Edition Stated, Presumed 1st
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0969178875
- ISBN 13
- 9780969178873
- Publisher
- TFE publishing
- Place of Publication
- Kingston,ON
- Date Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 148
- Size
- 9" X 6
- Keywords
- CREMATION - REIGIOUS ASPECTS - CHRISTIANITY. CREMATION - BIBLICAL TEACHING.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
Terms of Sale
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