| A Place of Greater Safety Contributor(s): Mantel, Hilary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312426399 ISBN-13: 9780312426392 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: Set during the French Revolution, this "riveting historical novel" ("The New Yorker") is the story of three young provincials who together helped destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.29" H x 5.48" W x 8.23" (1.28 lbs) 768 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden--and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter. In the swells of revolution, they each taste the addictive delights of power, and the price that must be paid for it. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mantel, Hilary: - Hilary Mantel is the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for her best-selling novels, Wolf Hall, and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies--an unprecedented achievement. The Royal Shakespeare Company adapted Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies for the stage to colossal critical acclaim, and the BBC/Masterpiece six-part adaption of the novels aired in 2015. The author of fourteen books, she is currently at work on the third installment of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy. |