{"product_id":"paris-in-the-present-tense","title":"Paris in the Present Tense","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eParis in the Present Tense\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMark Helprin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781468316681\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Overlook Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e400\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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 \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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"Paris in the Present Tense | Mark Helprin | Paperback | 9781468316681 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks B 1777156","offer_id":49765597118616,"sku":"1777156","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71CAXYOcbCL.jpg?v=1787970318","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/paris-in-the-present-tense","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}