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001			027049
003			BSMA
005			20240215102548.0
008			240215s1998 nyu 000 1 eng
020			_a9780805044287
082	0	0	_aFIC MAN
100	1		_aMantel, Hilary _d, 1952-
245	1	4	_aThe giant, O'Brien : _ba novel _c/ Hilary Mantel
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: H. Holt _c, 1998
300			_a192 p. _c; 22 cm
500			_aA Marian Wood book.
520	3		_a1782: 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. In her acclaimed novel, Hilary Mantel tells of the fated convergence of Ireland and England. As belief wrestles knowledge and science wrestles song, so "The Giant, O'Brien" calls to us from a fork in the road as a tale of time, and a timeless tale.
546			_aEnglish
650		0	_aGaints _x-Fiction
650			_aIrish _z-England _v--Fiction
650		4	_aPathology _x-Fiction
651		4	_aIreland _v--Fiction
655		7	_aHistorical fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c267058 _d267058