Paris in the present tense
Helprin, Mark2018
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74-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 to 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.
Main title:
Paris in the present tense / Mark Helprin.
Author:
Helprin, Mark, author
Imprint:
London : Duckworth Overlook, 2018.
Collation:
400 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780715652886 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2628090