TY - BOOK AU - Helprin,Mark TI - Paris in the present tense SN - 9781468314762 AV - PS3558.E4775 P37 2017 U1 - 813/.54 23 KW - Terminally ill children KW - Fiction KW - Families KW - Paris (France) N1 - "A novel"--Cover N2 - 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 wit a young cellist a third his age. He forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth ER -