Paris in the present tense /
Helprin, Mark, 1947-
Paris in the present tense / Mark Helprin. - First edition. - 394 pages ; 24 cm
"A novel"--Dust jacket.
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. He forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth.
9781468314762 (hbk) 1468314769
Terminally ill children--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Novela estadounidense
Romance fiction.
Fiction.
Love stories.
Romance fiction.
PS 3558 / P483p 2017
813/.6
Paris in the present tense / Mark Helprin. - First edition. - 394 pages ; 24 cm
"A novel"--Dust jacket.
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. He forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth.
9781468314762 (hbk) 1468314769
Terminally ill children--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Novela estadounidense
Romance fiction.
Fiction.
Love stories.
Romance fiction.
PS 3558 / P483p 2017
813/.6