A Place of Greater Safety (Audible Audio Edition) Hilary Mantel Jonathan Keeble Whole Story Audiobooks Books
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A tour-de-force of historical imagination, this is the story of three young men at the dawn of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton zealous, energetic, debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre small, diligent, and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins a genius of rhetoric, charming, handsome, but erratic and untrustworthy.
As these key figures of the French Revolution taste the addictive delights of power, they must also come to face the horror that follows.
A Place of Greater Safety (Audible Audio Edition) Hilary Mantel Jonathan Keeble Whole Story Audiobooks Books
Superb. I read it, finished, then immediately went to the beginning and read it all the way through a second time. Mantel has a unique gift for historical fiction. She just dumps you right there in the past, amid characters going about the trivia of their daily lives with little notion of how much of it will eventually become "history". I have no idea how she does it. Maybe she's psychic. I do know she's witty. And unsentimental enough to allow love of all kinds--spoken and unspoken--to come through without announcement. She doesn't tell a reader what to think; she just serves it up. There are no heroes or villains, merely ultra-plausible humans flailing around in unintended traps of their own making. Some of them are brilliant, some aren't, and even the few who aren't self-interested are interested in their own selflessness. The occasional moment of redemption comes--not always recognized--then immediately flickers out. What can I say? This is life. C'est la vie.Product details
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A Place of Greater Safety (Audible Audio Edition) Hilary Mantel Jonathan Keeble Whole Story Audiobooks Books Reviews
This is a difficult book to rate. For an aficionado of the French Revolution, this novel is a must-read. It truly brings to life, in great detail, the personalities behind the Revolution -- Robespierre, Danton and of course Camille Desmoulins. It is exceptionally well-written, with a superb narrative style and a strong command of vocabulary. But I feel you need to have a good knowledge of the French Revolution to get the most out of this well-researched novel. For an amateur historian like myself, with only an average knowledge of the Revolution, there are more engaging historical novels available. I am glad that I read this novel and I learned a lot from it.
Let me be clear I believe Hilary Mantel is one of the best historical fiction writers alive. Her writing in Wolf Hall and in Bring Up the Bodies is stratospherically excellent -- truly incomparable. In A Place of Greater Safety, however, she is not at her best. Clearly she possesses a wealth of knowledge about the French Revolution, but this book was poorly organized and somewhat disjointed. The story line and the background are often difficult to follow, and in the end it's still difficult to sort through the information in order to arrive at any sensible conclusion about how and why things came out the way they did. This book reminded me of a first or (more generously but perhaps less accurately) a second draft. It needs editing. It needs clarification. Nevertheless, it also contains huge amounts of information and nearly all of it was new to me. Did I learn anything from it? Oh, yes. I learned a lot from this book. I recommend it only to serious readers of historical fiction.
It took quite a while and another two historical novels before Hilary Mantel was recognized as one of the greatest living writers in the English language. Anyone who was blown away by the two Richard Cromwell novels (to date we're now anticipating the final volume) should read A Place of Greater Safety. At the moment I think it's her best novel, but then I've been submerged in her Revolution for the past week. Submerged is the right word--the thing just takes you over and rolls you along.. Unless, of course, it simply bores you it's rigorously historical, based whenever possible on primary sources. That makes it all the more stunning if you're the other, unbored kind of reader.
All Mantel's novels and stories are very much worth reading. She has an extraordinary range of concerns--and of genres, from the thriller to the Gothic to the historical novels that have finally made her famous. This novel centers on three key figures, has hundreds of historical characters, brings to life and passionate immediacy the birth and death of the Republic that invented modern politics in the western world. The big three--Danton, Robespierre and Desmoulins-- are fully realized, continually changing, fascinating characters.. The writing is colloquial, modern (no archaisms or even French-sounding locutions) and so immediately present that it's eerie to reflect that you know what comes next, you know exactly where it's going. And finally, it's a master stroke to have made Camille Desmoulins so credibly the ideological and erotic connection binding the three protagonists together. Mantel writes charisma perfectly. I should mention too that the women loom large, especially Lucile Desmoulins, and that Mantel's narrative is rich with interrelations, personal as well as political.
Another brilliant book by an extraordinary writer, who, in my opinion, is the modern-day Dickens. I must admit it took two tries to read this book, as I was somewhat overwhelmed by the amount of characters and their names, but after the second try, I was very glad I did read it. It covers the period leading up to the French Revolution and the first proponents of making France a Republic. The female characters play very important roles
in this story, and the author has captured the resonance of this period that changed the course of history, the friendship from childhood of the main characters, and the ultimate betrayal that started events that could not be stopped. It's a long book, but so beautifully written, it's well worth reading.
Superb. I read it, finished, then immediately went to the beginning and read it all the way through a second time. Mantel has a unique gift for historical fiction. She just dumps you right there in the past, amid characters going about the trivia of their daily lives with little notion of how much of it will eventually become "history". I have no idea how she does it. Maybe she's psychic. I do know she's witty. And unsentimental enough to allow love of all kinds--spoken and unspoken--to come through without announcement. She doesn't tell a reader what to think; she just serves it up. There are no heroes or villains, merely ultra-plausible humans flailing around in unintended traps of their own making. Some of them are brilliant, some aren't, and even the few who aren't self-interested are interested in their own selflessness. The occasional moment of redemption comes--not always recognized--then immediately flickers out. What can I say? This is life. C'est la vie.
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