The Giant, O'Brien: A Novel [Paperback]

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A novelist without peer in her generation . . . No reader who loves fiction should miss this opportunity to read this extraordinary work. San Francisco Chronicle

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, soThe Giant, O'Briencalls to us from a fork in the road as a tale of time, and a timeless tale.

Hilary Mantelwas the author of the bestselling novelWolf Halland its sequel,Bring Up the Bodies, which both won the Booker Prize. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy,The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on theNew York Timesbestseller list and won world-wide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books, including the memoirGiving Up the Ghost, and she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Walter Scott Prize, the Costa Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize, and many other accolades. In 2014, Mantel was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died at age seventy in 2022.

A novelist without peer in her generation . . . No reader who loves fiction should miss this opportunity to read this extraordinary work.
San Francisco Chronicle

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