

Paris in the Present Tense
Author: Mark Helprin
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 14 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/03/2017
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Mark Helprin
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 14 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/03/2017
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Mark Helprin is the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of Paris in the Present Tense, Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, In Sunlight and in Shadow, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Swan Lake, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works.
Bronson Pinchot, an Audie Award–winning narrator and Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, received his education at Yale University. He restores Greek Revival buildings and appears in television, film, and on stage whenever the pilasters and entablatures overwhelm him.
The plot lines in this novel wouldn't be out of place in a blockbuster movie. The seventy-five-year-old hero Jules Lacour, a music teacher, comes to the defence of a Hasidic Jew being attacked by three Muslims. He kills two of them and the other flees as does the Hasidic Jew. There's thus no evidenc......more
This is a haunting story of love, longing and the meaning of sacrifice. It is also a tribute to the beauty of Paris. However, the book is not just an excuse for poetic musing. It has a gripping plot that keeps you wanting to read until the last page. A tragically beautiful story by a master writer.......more
'Paris in the Present Tense' surely must be written by a magician. For I don’t know who else could include on one page, in one paragraph and sometimes even in one sentence haunting memories; the reasoning of a philosopher; riffs on music musically written; asides written with such snark, Shakespeare......more
“A modern-day story of love, music, and death, with echoes of the Nazi retreat in World War II France…A masterpiece filled with compassion and humanity. Perfect for the pure pleasure of reading.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“It is the fluidity of Helprin’s prose that makes this novel of ideas so utterly captivating.”
Booklist (starred review)“[Mark Helprin’s] books are romances in the chivalric mold, in which beauty, love, and bravery possess a greater reality than the characters dedicated to honoring them. This is true again in his enchanting new novel, Paris in the Present Tense…This passionate and uplifting book produces a kind of music that few living writers know how to create.”
Wall Street Journal“A twilight novel, and its love affair, essential to any Helprin work, is a complex one, haunted by time…His prose has an aching beauty.”
Boston Globe“Rooted in history and ethical debate.”
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