Name: Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel (en Inglés)
SKU: 50819289
Price: 25.96 USD
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Author: Mark Helprin
ISBN: 9781468316681

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Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mark Helprin

Editorial

Harry N. Abrams

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

400

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.1x13.7x2.8 cm

Peso

0.34

ISBN13

9781468316681

Categorías

Relativo a personas o grupos judíos
Ficción: general y literaria
Ficción religiosa y espiritual

Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel (en Inglés)

Mark Helprin (Autor) · Harry N. Abrams · Tapa Blanda

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Paris in the Present Tense, Mark Helprin's powerful, rapturous novel, is set in a contemporary City of Light 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.