A Place of Greater Safety

Name: A Place of Greater Safety
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Hilary Mantel
ISBN: 9780312426392

Hilary Mantel

14/11/2006
Picador Usa

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de A Place of Greater Safety par Hilary Mantel

Résumé

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.