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A Place of Greater Safety

A Novel

Author: Hilary Mantel

A Place of Greater Safety

A Place of Greater Safety

$12.99

About This Book

The story of three young provincials of no great heritage who together helped to destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves.
Page Count
768
On Sale
11/14/2006

Book Details

The story of three young provincials of no great heritage who together helped to destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves: Camille Desmoulins, bisexual and beautiful, charming, erratic, untrustworthy; Georges Jacques Danton, hugely but erotically ugly, a brilliant pragmatist who knew how to seize power and use it; and Maximilien Robespierre, "the rabid lamb," who would send his dearest friend to the guillotine. Each, none older than thirty-four, would die by the hand of the very revolution he had helped to bring into being.

Imprint Publisher

Holt Paperbacks

ISBN

9781429922807

In The News

“Brilliant, edgy historical fiction that catches the jittery, violent flux of the French Revolution.” —Michael Upchurch, Chicago Tribune

“Riveting historical novel” —The New Yorker

About the Creators

A Place of Greater Safety

A Place of Greater Safety

$12.99