Mark Helprin

#library withdrawn##hardcover #largeprint

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Mark Helprin's powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maitre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present.

In the midst of what should be an effulgent time of life--days bright with music, family, rowing on the Seine--Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a third his age. Against the backdrop of an exquisite and knowing vision of Paris and the way it can uniquely shape a life, he forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth.

In the intoxicating beauty of its prose and emotional amplitude of its storytelling, Mark Helprin's Paris in the Present Tense is a soaring achievement, a deep, dizzying look at a life through the purifying lenses of art and memory.

Paris in the Present Tense

2dfb279b-97c6-4152-a239-2bea67deb864-1

A Novel

Mark Helprin's powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present. In the midst of what should be an effulgent time of life--days bright with music, family, rowing on the Seine--Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a third his age. Against the backdrop of an exquisite and knowing vision of Paris and the way it can uniquely shape a life, he forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth.In the intoxicating beauty of its prose and emotional amplitude of its storytelling, Mark Helprin's Paris in the Present Tense is a soaring achievement, a deep, dizzying look at a life through the purifying lenses of art and memory.

Category - Fiction / General Fiction

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Excellent

Listed - 2 years ago

Views - 24

Wishes - 1

Ships From - Virginia

Est. Publication Date - Feb 2018

Seller Description

Additional Information

Publisher Description

Tags

Paris in the Present Tense

By:

$2.00

Condition

Format

Meet the seller

Discover more

Paris in the Present Tense

By: Mark Helprin

'Paris in the Present Tense' readers also enjoyed:

Additional titles by Mark Helprin

Recently Viewed

Browse by categories

Category - Fiction / General Fiction

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Excellent

Listed - 2 years ago

Views - 24

Wishes - 1

Ships From - Virginia

Est. Publication Date - Feb 2018

Seller Description

Additional Information

Publisher Description

Tags

Paris in the Present Tense

By:

$2.00

Condition

Format

Meet the seller

Discover more

Paris in the Present Tense

By: Mark Helprin

'Paris in the Present Tense' readers also enjoyed:

Additional titles by Mark Helprin

Recently Viewed