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  A Place of Greater Safety (Picador) (Paperback) By (author) Hilary Mantel

  

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  Short Description for A Place of Greater SafetySet 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.
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  • Publisher: Picador USA
  • Published: 14 November 2006
  • Format: Paperback 749 pages
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  • Categories: Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780312426392 ISBN 10: 0312426399
  • Sales rank: 35,069

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Full description for A Place of Greater Safety

• 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.