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Paris in the present tense, a novel, Mark Helprin

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Paris in the present tense, a novel, Mark Helprin

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Paris in the present tense

Responsibility statement

Mark Helprin

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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

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