A Place of Greater Safety
A Novel
$56.46
- Paperback
768 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2006
Summary
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 anot…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780312426392 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0312426399 |
| Author: | Hilary Mantel |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 768 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 581g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 139mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Picador |
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About The Author
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel twice won the Booker Prize, for her best-selling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won critical acclaim around the globe. Mantel authored over a dozen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, and the memoir Giving Up the Ghost.
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