On Hold The Devil’s Laughter by Frank Yerby – HB/DJ/1953

Book Type : Hardback
Publisher : The Dial Press
Edition : Book Club Edition
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number : No Listing
ISBN Number : No Listing
Copyright Date : 1953
Dimensions : 8 ½” High x 5 ¾” Wide x 1” Thick
Inventory Number : 000-000-961
Original Retail Price : $ Unknown

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Description : From the front and back flaps…
“His laughter was strange. It was filled with mockery for all things under heaven and earth, even for himself. His sister, Therese, called it devil’s laughter…”

But like all men, Jean Paul Marin – the hero of Frank Yerby’s new novel – is only part devil. He can be saintly when the occasion calls for it – though in the turbulent years of the French Revolution which are the background for The Devil’s Laughter, there was more need for devils than for saints.

Jean Paul Marin is tall, and handsome despite the pale scar which runs from his forehead to his upper lip (a souvenir of the Comte de Gravereau’s private prison). He is the son of a wealthy merchant family, but he and his father have quarreled over Jean’s hot-headed revolutionary writings, and, more bitterly, over his sister Therese’s coming marriage to the Comte de Gravereau.

Truly, Jean is a son of the Revolution-but he lives to regret his part in it, even though it is the cause of his rise from obscurity as a country lawyer to fame as one of the most important men in all France-an intimate of Robespierre, Danton and Mirabeau.

But Jean Paul Marin is not all lawyer and revolutionary, as the three women in his life can attest.

Lucienne Talbot knows Jean as a raging, passionate beast. Well might he be with her, for she is tall with tawny hair, an untamed woman with the grace of a cat. And the claws. She longs to dance at l’Opera, to act at the Comedie Francaise, and she plans to reach her goal by allying herself with Jean’s enemy the same Comte de Gravereau who will marry Jean’s sister.

For Nicole la Moyte, the Comte’s sister, Jean is an unattainable dream: she is of noble blood and he, though wealthy, is a commoner. She is a small girl and very beautiful. Her hair is pure blonde, her eyes the color the Mediterranean far out on a summer day. Her lips are shell pink and moist. Jean loves her fully as much as he hates her brother, and she waits for him, until that terrible day when she believes him dead.

To Fleurette, the slim flower girl, Jean is-at first-kind, a gentleman. She cannot know what he looks like though she has great dark eyes, for she is blind; but knows his footsteps and his good, clean smell. She is lovely, an ethereal loveliness with no hint of sensuality, and she has the rarest thing in the world-patience and real goodness. Her voice is high, clear and sweet like certain notes of the violin and again like little bells. When they first meet, Jean tells her, “In every city, I always find a certain person who will bring me luck. You are my luck here, Fleurette.” But lovely Fleurette comes to mean a good deal more than luck to Jean, for under his gentle care she becomes a woman in every sense of the word.

Once again, Frank Yerby has combined authentic, accurate history with his now famous abilities as a story-teller to give us the rich violent tale of men and women in a tumultuous era of the past-but a past which seems close to our own present.

Condition :

• Book :
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  3. There are no tears or writing on the inside pages.
  4. The book is from a non-smoking home.
• Dust Jacket :
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  2. Normal wear with light soiling, fading, small dings and tears.

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