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The giant, O'Brien : a novel

Author:Hilary Mantel

Summary: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

eBook, English, 2007

Edition:First Picador edition View all formats and editions

Publisher: Picador/Henry Holt Company, New York, 2007

Genre:Fiction

Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages) : portrait

ISBN:

9781429932196, 1429932198

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:861521661

Subjects:

FICTION Literary

Géants Romans, nouvelles, etc

Giants (Folklore) Fiction

Ireland Fiction

Irish fiction England

Irlande Romans, nouvelles, etc

Roman irlandais Angleterre

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Print version:

Giant, O'Brien.

Mantel, Hilary, 1952-

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