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The Giant, O’Brien

by Hilary Mantel
language: english
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, June of 1999 ‧
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From the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, comes the true story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien, who was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon John Hunter.

The Giant, O’Brien

by Hilary Mantel

Property Description
ISBN: 9781857028867
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date: June of 1999
Language: English
Dimensions: 127 x 196 x 13 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 224
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Fiction
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9781857028867

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel (Glossop, Inglattera, em 1952, DBE - 22 de setembro, 2022) estudou direito na London School of Economics and Sheffield University. Trabalhou como assistente social, viveu cinco anos no Botswana e outros quatro anos na Arábia Saudita. Regressou ao Reino Unido nos anos 80.

Considerada uma das melhores escritoras britânicas da atualidade, várias das suas obras receberam prémios literários. Destacam-se os títulos "Eight Months on Ghazzah Street" (1988); "Fludd" (1989), vencedor do Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, do Cheltenham Prize e do Southern Arts Literature Prize; "A Place of Greater Safety" (1992), vencedor do Sunday Express Book of the Year; "A Change of Climate" (1994); "An Experiment in Love" (1995), vencedor do Hawthornden Prize 1996; "The Giant" (1998); "Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir" (2003); "Learning to Talk: Short Stories" (2003); "Beyond Black" (2005), finalista do Commonwealth Writers Prize e do Orange Prize for Fiction em 2006; e "Wolf Hall" (2009) que lhe valeu o Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009.

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