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London, 1782: middle of research and business, home to the recently abundant and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Large, O'Brien, a freak of nature, a guy of songs 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 guy of research, the famous anatomist John Hunter, who lusts after the Giant's corpse as a medical attention, a benefit to the improvement of scientific knowledge. In her acclaimed book, two-time Man Booker Reward winning author Hilary Mantel tells of the fated convergence of Ireland and England. As notion wrestles knowledge and research wrestles songs, so The Large, O'Brien calls to us from a fork in the road as an account of the time, and a timeless tale.
