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Product Identifiers
PublisherPicador
ISBN-100312426399
ISBN-139780312426392
eBay Product ID (ePID)57192670
Product Key Features
Book TitlePlace of Greater Safety : a Novel
Number of Pages768 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicWar & Military, Literary, Biographical, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorHilary Mantel
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption."--Joan Acocella, "The New Yorker" "More people really need to get with the concept that Mantel is one of the best writers in England." --Zadie Smith, author of "On Beauty" "Brilliant, edgy historical fiction that captures the whiplash flux of the French Revolution with crisp immediacy on the page."--"The Seattle Times" "An epic of extraordinary detail and depth . . . [it] moves beyond the realm of an absorbing yarn into the arena of a literary masterpiece."--"Booklist", "Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption."--Joan Acocella, The New Yorker "More people really need to get with the concept that Mantel is one of the best writers in England." --Zadie Smith, author of On Beauty "Brilliant, edgy historical fiction that captures the whiplash flux of the French Revolution with crisp immediacy on the page."-- The Seattle Times "An epic of extraordinary detail and depth . . . [it] moves beyond the realm of an absorbing yarn into the arena of a literary masterpiece."-- Booklist, An epic of extraordinary detail and depth . . . [it] moves beyond the realm of an absorbing yarn into the arena of a literary masterpiece., Brilliant, edgy historical fiction that captures the whiplash flux of the French Revolution with crisp immediacy on the page., "Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption." -- Joan Acocella, The New Yorker "More people really need to get with the concept that Mantel is one of the best writers in England." -- Zadie Smith, author of On Beauty "Brilliant, edgy historical fiction that captures the whiplash flux of the French Revolution with crisp immediacy on the page." -- The Seattle Times "An epic of extraordinary detail and depth . . . [it] moves beyond the realm of an absorbing yarn into the arena of a literary masterpiece." -- Booklist, Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption., "Brilliant, edgy historical fiction that catches the jittery, violent flux of the French Revolution."--Michael Upchurch, "Chicago Tribune"Riveting historical novel"--"The New Yorker, "Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption."--Joan Acocella, The New Yorker "More people really need to get with the concept that Mantel is one of the best writers in England." --Zadie Smith, author of On Beauty "Brilliant, edgy historical fiction that captures the whiplash flux of the French Revolution with crisp immediacy on the page."-- The Seattle Times "An epic of extraordinary detail and depth . . . [it] moves beyond the realm of an absorbing yarn into the arena of a literary masterpiece."-- Booklist, "Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption."--Joan Acocella, The New Yorker "More people really need to get with the concept that Mantel is one of the best writers in England." --Zadie Smith, author of On Beauty "Brilliant, edgy historical fiction that captures the whiplash flux of the French Revolution with crisp immediacy on the page."--The Seattle Times "An epic of extraordinary detail and depth . . . [it] moves beyond the realm of an absorbing yarn into the arena of a literary masterpiece."--Booklist, "Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption."--Joan Acocella,The New Yorker "More people really need to get with the concept that Mantel is one of the best writers in England." --Zadie Smith, author ofOn Beauty "Brilliant, edgy historical fiction that captures the whiplash flux of the French Revolution with crisp immediacy on the page."--The Seattle Times "An epic of extraordinary detail and depth . . . [it] moves beyond the realm of an absorbing yarn into the arena of a literary masterpiece."--Booklist
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal823.914
SynopsisIt 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., Set 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.
