{"product_id":"paris-in-the-present-tense-paperback","title":"Paris in the Present Tense - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Helprin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eParis in the Present Tense\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Mark Helprin's powerful, rapturous novel, is set in a contemporary City of Light caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the intoxicating beauty of its prose and emotional amplitude of its storytelling, Mark Helprin's \u003ci\u003eParis in the Present Tense\u003c\/i\u003e is a soaring achievement, a deep, dizzying look at a life through the purifying lenses of art and memory.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Helprin\u003c\/b\u003e is the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eParis in the Present Tense\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWinter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Sunlight and in Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Soldier of the Great War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFreddy and Fredericka\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSwan Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEllis Island\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMemoir from Antproof Case\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous other works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53495805083955,"sku":"9781468316681","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/W_GiArHmN39781468316681.webp?v=1781593489","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/paris-in-the-present-tense-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}