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Hilary Mantel's unflinching ability to bring history to life is on prominent display in A Place of Greater Safety. The French Revolution was dotted with curious characters and abounding in tension and Mantel has captured all of that and more in the story of three people at the heart of it.
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“Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption.” —Joan Acocella, The New Yorker
Capturing the violence, tragedy, history, and drama of the French Revolution, this novel focuses on the families and loves of three men who led the Revolution—Danton, the orator; Robespierre, the cold rationalist; and Desmoulins, a fellow conspirator.
It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their wa...
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