Place of Greater Safety: A Novel
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Book Info
Author
Mantel, Hilary
Word Count
192,000 words
based on page count
Pages
768 pages
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Edition Publisher
Picador
Edition Publish Date
2006-01-01
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0312426399
ISBN-13: 9780312426392
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.
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