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Title	:	A Place of Greater Safety
Author	:	Hilary Mantel
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 749 pages
Published	:	November 14th 2006 by Picador (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. France. European History. French Revolution

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Finally decided to jack this one and I'm light-headed and blinking like a person unaccustomed to the light and the sweet air of liberty. What a bummer when you pick a big long novel and it turns out to be the pain in the arse this one did - not so bad that I could apply the 100 page rule but not so good that I actually wanted to pick the thing up and read the words in it. This is a magnificently detailed weird-ass almost day-by-day recreation of the French Revolution seen through the ever-talking mouths of Danton, Desmoulins and Johnny (they call me Mr Terror) Robespierre but all these grand revolutionaries seem to be on Prozac, perpetually polite, never agitated - they're the world's most unagitated agitators - all the dialogue (and there is a real lot) is slightly oblique, brittle but never witty, like it was written by Oscar Wilde's little-known Asperger-Syndrome brother, the zillion secondary characters swarming around the three main ones are totally confusing, the main issues thrown up by the events of the revolution are rarely alluded to and really the whole complex edifice made me want to watch Terminator 2 again because with T2 you know what the issues are, you know that Arnie is a cyborg sent back in time to protect John Connor and you know the T-1000, a superior machine, has been sent back to kill him and you know these two mothers have this giant knock down drag-out for two hours and Arnie has to win otherwise the entire future of the very human race will be aswirling down the cosmic sump of time so biff bang clang and squish.... I think Hilary Mantel could have learned a few things from T2. Like action, humour and a clear understanding of what's really at stake.

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Original Title:	A Place of Greater Safety
ISBN:	0312426399 (ISBN13: 9780312426392)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Marie Antoinette, Jean Paul Marat, Maximilien Robespierre, Louis XVI of France, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Antoine Barnave, Madame Roland, Camille Desmoulins, Georges-Jaques Danton, Fabre d'Englatine, Jacques René Hébert, Anne Théroigne, Lucile Duplessis, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Setting:	France
Literary Awards:	Sunday Express Book of the Year (1992)

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I will review more tomorrow. Just too much. Mantel is amazing. The book was too long. Not as good as her Cromwell cycle, but still, dear GOD can Mantel write and subvert history. I walked away from this book, I think, in love with three enfants terrible of the French Revolution. It really is true, I think, that to know someone is to love them.In someways telling the history of the French revolution is perfect using these three men. It is like Mantel places the ID (Danton), EGO (Desmoulins), and

I will review more tomorrow. Just too much. Mantel is amazing. The book was too long. Not as good as her Cromwell cycle, but still, dear GOD can Mantel write and subvert history. I walked away from this book, I think, in love with three enfants terrible of the French Revolution. It really is true, I think, that to know someone is to love them.In someways telling the history of the French revolution is perfect using these three men. It is like Mantel places the ID (Danton), EGO (Desmoulins), and

Mantel took on a huge challenge with this, her first book, set aside for twenty years before its eventual publication.The questions she asks are: at what moment in the political revolution in France is there no going back and, for her three main characters (Danton, Desmoulins and Robespierre), Is there a moment when life changes decisively, where there is absolutely no return to the person you were before, or the conditions as they were.' This leads to a further question: 'how an individual can,

"For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is not licensed to be imagined." Thus Hilary Mantel in an illuminating article on Robespierre in the London Review of Books. Her use of the p-word is a measure of the kind of disdain she feels emanating from the academic historians, who seem to think there are only two kinds of history, the 'sceptical and rational' or the 'imaginative and erratic'. But Mantel has

This book is one of my all-time favorites, and I remain in awe of Mantel for balancing the historical and political elements with telling a darn good story. She deals with an enormous cast of characters (most of which history itself supplied, but she makes them come to life), and her portrayal of Camille and Lucile Desmoulins in particular is utterly captivating--they definitely steal the book. If you don't know much about the French Revolution, you will probably be a bit confused by the plot,

A flawed book, but a very impressive and absorbing one.Mantel traces the story of the Revolution through the experiences of Danton, Robespierre and Desmouslins, along with an extensive cast of the men and women who knew, loved, or hated them. If I'm honest I'd have to say it could have lost a couple of hundred pages a tighter edit is definitely in there somewhere, although there's something to be said for a lengthy story that you have to live with for a few days.Part of me wanted more detail

Very cool history of the French Revolution told in a fictionalized style. The insight of the author into human behavior, and the fullness she gives these vivid yet dry characters from history is amazing! Truly a great book.