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Title: Paris in the Present Tense
Author: Mark Helprin
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-03-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 74 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:
The New York Times best-selling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin reveals a powerful, rapturous novel set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories.
Seventy-four-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, with its days bright with music, family, and 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 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 who is a third his age. Against the backdrop of an exquisite and knowing vision of Paris and the way it can uniquely shape a life, he forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth.
In the intoxicating beauty of its prose and emotional amplitude of its storytelling, Mark Helprin's Paris in the Present Tense is a soaring achievement, a deep, dizzying look at a life through the purifying lenses of art and memory.

Members Reviews:
Greatest living "novelist". Top 10 narrator.
Helprin is the only writer going who combines exquisite phrasing with exquisite and important thought, always within the construct of the classical novel form. There are writers who are great with phrasing, or rumination/philosophizing, or sometimes (but rarely) even both. But to be able to achieve both, and frequently, while staying within an important and compelling story, within the complete novel form.........that's a feat so rare that it's almost disheartening to read Helprin knowing that at 70, he may not have many/any left in him. God, I hope not.
Pinchot is brilliant performing multiple accents across mixed dialogs, all with the proper cadence, emphasis, and heart. It's worth the listen just to hear a Texan talking with a Parisian over dinner!

Incredible
An wonderfully beautiful book. Pinchot does it justice with his masterful narration. Helprins prose flows like poetry.

Like a classic symphony
This is Helprin's best since A Winter's Tale. The story is multi layered, the writing positively lyrical, the characters so fully realized and accessible even on their uniqueness. I'll listen to this several more times and read the hard coy as well! Can't recommend it highly enough. If you love history, music, people in all their flaws, get this book

Beiutfully written
I enjoyed audible a great deal however I believe reading the written story would be a greater enjoyment. The author is extremely talented writer. In addition, the narrator is maybe the best I have experienced.

Excellent performance!
There are elements of the plot (romance between 25 year-old and 74 year-old, for example) that I found a bit hard to accept, the reader's performance is excellent! At times during conversations between strikingly different individuals, I would suddenly think, "Wait, I am listening to only one person.