
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 ma tre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist,...

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 ma tre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the...
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin reveals a powerful, rapturous novel set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin reveals a powerful, rapturous novel set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old...