The Giant, O'Brien - by Hilary Mantel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A sick Irish giant in 18th century London is offered money by an anatomist if he will bequeath his body. The giant refuses, he wants to enter heaven whole, but the anatomist gets the body anyway. A parable on man of myth versus man of science. By the author of Eight Months on Ghazzah Street.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>New York Times Book Review </i>Notable Book of the Year</b><br><b><i>Los Angeles Times</i> Best Book of the Year</b> <p/>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. <p/>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 <i>The Giant, O'Brien</i> calls to us from a fork in the road as a tale of time, and a timeless tale.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A novelist without peer in her generation . . . No reader who loves fiction should miss this opportunity to read this extraordinary work." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>"Mantel's novel is in one sense a brilliant pastiche of Swift and Joyce [but] it becomes her own style, as acute and arresting as is her vision of history." --<i>The New York Review of Books</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of many novels including <i>Wolf Hall</i>, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. <i>Bring Up the Bodies</i>, Book Two of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She is also the author of <i>A Change of Climate</i>, <i>A Place of Greater Safety</i>, <i>Eight Months on Ghazzah Street</i>, <i>An Experiment in Love</i>, <i>The Giant, O'Brien</i>, <i>Fludd</i>, <i>Beyond Black</i>, <i>Every Day Is Mother's Day</i>, and <i>Vacant Possession</i>. She has also written a memoir, <i>Giving Up the Ghost</i>. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared in <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New York Review of Books</i>, and the <i>London Review of Books</i>. She lives in England with her husband.</p>
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