The Giant, O'Brien Paperback by Hilary Mantel

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor Canada (2013-01-14)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 208 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385680332
• Item Weight: 226.8 grams
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 13.51 x 1.57 cm

From the two-time Booker winner, the story of the eighteenth-century Irish giant, Charles O'Brien.

Charles O'Brien, bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. But what of his own story as he is led from Ireland to seek his fortune beyond the seas in England?

The Surprising Irish Giant may be the sensation of the season but only his compatriots seem to attend to his mythic powers of invention. John Hunter, celebrated surgeon and anatomist, buys dead men from the gallows and babies' corpses by the inch. Where is a man as unique as The Giant to hide his bones when he is yet alive?

The Giant, O'Brien is an unforgettable novel; lyrical, shocking and spliced with black comedy.

About the Author

Hilary Mantel was the author of the bestselling novel Wolf Hall and 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 the New York Times bestseller list and won world-wide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books, including the memoir Giving 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.