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Paris in the present tense / Mark Helprin.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, NY : The Overlook Press, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: 394 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781468314762 (hbk)
  • 1468314769
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS 3558  P483p 2017
Summary: 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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PS 3558 H483p 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000121307
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"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.

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