The Giant, O'brien by Hilary Mantel
A fictionalized, darkly comic and elegiac portrait of an 18th‑century Irish giant whose life is turned into spectacle and commodity: fleeing conscription, he arrives in London and becomes the object of fascination for showmen and an obsessive surgeon determined to claim his body for science. Told with intimacy and mordant wit, the story probes exploitation, friendship, bodily autonomy, and the uneasy moral trade‑offs of curiosity and ambition.
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- Published
- 1998
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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