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The Giant, O'Brien
A Historical Fiction Novel by Hilary Mantel
Subgenres:
- Georgian London,
- Irish Historical Fiction,
- Folklore
This book is for you if you're into...
- Historical fiction where myth clashes with science in 18th century London
- Stories about outsiders navigating fame, poverty, and exploitation
- Narratives exploring the collision of Irish folklore and English rationalism
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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