The Giant, O'Brien A Novel [Paperback]

New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of the Year
Los Angeles TimesBest 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, soThe Giant, O'Briencalls to us from a fork in the road as a tale of time, and a timeless tale.

Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of many novels includingWolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.Bring Up the Bodies, Book Two of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She is also the author ofA Change of Climate,A Place of Greater Safety,Eight Months on Ghazzah Street,An Experiment in Love,The Giant, O'Brien,Fludd,Beyond Black,Every Day Is Mother's Day, andVacant Possession. She has also written a memoir,Giving Up the Ghost. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared inThe New York Times,The New York Review of Books, and theLondon Review of Books. She lives in England with her husband.

???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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