The Giant, O'Brien

Hilary Mantel

Original title: The Giant O'Brien

earliest edition we have, 1998 Fourth Estate, 1998

London, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. Among whom is the Giant, O'Brien, a freak of nature, a man of song and story who trusts in the old myths. He has come from Ireland to exhibit his size for money. He has, he soon finds, come to die. His opposite is a man of science, the famed anatomist John Hunter. Hunter lusts after the Giant's corpse, a medical curiosity,...

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Editions we hold

Giant, O'Brien edition · 2014 · Howes Limited, W. F. · 9781471274688
Giant, O'Brien edition · 2014 · Howes Limited, W. F. · 9781471272097
Giant, O'Brien edition · 2014 · Howes Limited, W. F. · 9781471275968
Der riesige O'Brien paperback · 2013 · DuMont Buchverlag GmbH · 9783832162566
Giant, O'Brien edition · 2010 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 224 pages · 9780007340866
Giant, O'Brien edition · 2010 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 224 pages · 9780007354900
Giant, O'Brien edition · 2007 · Holt & Company, Henry · 208 pages · 9781429932196
The Giant, O'Brien paperback · 2007 · Picador · 208 pages · 9780312426880
Der riesige O'Brien. paperback · 2003 · Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt · 9783596159017
The Giant, O'Brien paperback · 1999 · Fourth Estate · 224 pages · 9781857028867
The Giant, O'Brien hardcover · 1999 · Thorndike Press · 296 pages · 9780786217977
The Giant, O'Brien edition · 1999 · Chivers Press · 295 pages · 9780754012641

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