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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/14/2006
ISBN: 9780312426392
Pages: 749
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.48w x 1.29d
Review Citations: New York Times 12/24/2006 pg. 20
Library Journal 02/01/2007 pg. 108
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/14/2006
ISBN: 9780312426392
Pages: 749
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.48w x 1.29d
Review Citations: New York Times 12/24/2006 pg. 20
Library Journal 02/01/2007 pg. 108