Paris in the Present Tense

by Mark Helprin

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468314769
• ISBN13: 9781468314762
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"