Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel by Mark Helprin (English) Paperback Book

Description: Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel by Mark Helprin The "enchanting, passionate, and uplifting" (Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal, "Best New Fiction") new novel by the gifted, singular #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winters Tale and A Soldier of the Great War FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Mark Helprins 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 Helprins Paris in the Present Tense is a soaring achievement, a deep, dizzying look at a life through the purifying lenses of art and memory. Author Biography Mark Helprin is the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of Paris in the Present Tense, Winters Tale, In Sunlight and in Shadow, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Swan Lake, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works. Review "His [Helprins} Paris does exist in the present tense, irresistibly, undeniably real and alive, as though summoned by its creator rather than imagined." -- The New York Times Review Quote "This is a very ambitious novel, to be read at many levels and thought about for a long time. Mark Helprin is his own master, telling a story that is in part a thriller and in part a reflection on the way of the world, its rights and its wrongs. In intention, he is closer to Victor Hugo or Alexandre Dumas than to any contemporary novelist I know of . . . The words most appropriate for this novel happen to come from French: It is a tour de force." Details ISBN1468316680 Author Mark Helprin Pages 400 Publisher Overlook Press ISBN-10 1468316680 ISBN-13 9781468316681 Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-11-06 Short Title Paris in the Present Tense Language English Format Paperback Subtitle A Novel DEWEY 813.6 UK Release Date 2018-11-06 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2018-11-06 NZ Release Date 2018-11-06 US Release Date 2018-11-06 Edition Description Reprint Imprint Overlook Press Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:119312827;

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