The Giant, O'Brien by Mantel, Hilary

The Giant, O'Brien (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312426880)

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The Giant, O'Brien by Mantel, Hilary

The Giant, O'Brien

$19.00
The Giant, O'Brien by Mantel, Hilary

The Giant, O'Brien

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Hilary Mantel
ISBN-10: 0312426887
ISBN-13: 9780312426880
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2007
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
By Hilary Mantel
By Hilary Mantel
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Hilary Mantel twice won the Booker Prize, for her best-selling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won critical acclaim around the globe. Mantel authored over a dozen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, and the memoir Giving Up the Ghost

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