Paris in the present tense
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New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2017.
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9781468314762, 1468314769
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Published
New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2017.
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Book
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394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781468314762, 1468314769

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"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 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. 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."--Amazon.com.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Helprin, M. (2017). Paris in the present tense (First edition.). The Overlook Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Helprin, Mark. 2017. Paris in the Present Tense. The Overlook Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Helprin, Mark. Paris in the Present Tense The Overlook Press, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Helprin, Mark. Paris in the Present Tense First edition., The Overlook Press, 2017.

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