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The Giant, O'Brien
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ISBN10: 0312426887
ISBN13: 9780312426880
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jun 12 2007
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780312426880
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jun 12 2007
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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.
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