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A Place of Greater Safety

Paperback • 2006 • English

A Place of Greater Safety

By Hilary Mantel

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About the book

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 anothe...Show more

Historical fiction

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ISBN

9780312426392

Publisher

Picador USA

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

A Place of Greater Safety

Format

Paperback

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