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The Giant, O'Brien

The Giant, O'Brien

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New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

London, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Giant, O'Brien, a freak of nature, a man of song and story who trusts in myths, fairies, miracles, and little people. He has come from Ireland to exhibit his size for money. O'Brien's opposite is a man of science, the famed anatomist John Hunter, who lusts after the Giant's corpse as a medical curiosity, a boon to the advancement of scientific knowledge.

In her acclaimed novel, two-time Man Booker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel tells of the fated convergence of Ireland and England. As belief wrestles knowledge and science wrestles song, so The Giant, O'Brien calls to us from a fork in the road as a tale of time, and a timeless tale.

Book information

ISBN: 9780312426880
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Imprint: St. Martins Press-3PL
Pub date:
DEWEY: FIC
Language: English
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 159g
Height: 208mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 15mm

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