The Giant, O'Brien

by Hilary Mantel
The Giant, O'Brien

Published

January 2010

Publishers

UK
Fourth Estate
US
Henry Holt
London, 1782: centre of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and desperately poor. Among whom is the Giant, O'Brien, a freak of nature, a man of story and song who trusts in the old myths. He has come from Ireland to exhibit his size for money. He has, he soon discovers, come to die. His opposite is a man of science, the famed anatomist John Hunter. Hunter lusts after the Giant's coprse, a medical curiosity, a boon to the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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