Paris in the Present Tense
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2018.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large Print edition.
Description: 635 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maitre 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.
Series: Thorndike Press large print basic series.
Subjects:
Terminally ill children -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
Terminally ill children -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781432847463
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LPF Helprin | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Fiction | In |