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Zusatztext Based on the true story of the eighteenth century Irish bard and giantCharles O'Brien! who left his native country to seek fame and fortune acrossthe water! where he became the sensation of the London season but endedup being exhibited and dissected by the celebrated surgeon John Hunter!his bones to this day hanging in the Hunterian Museum. Lyrically told!Mantel populates O'Brien's world with a motley crew of characters and compatriots!on all of whom London makes its mark. "The search for the soul of an 18thcentury freak - an extraordinary novel" (Independent On Sunday). "Brilliant"(Literary Review). Informationen zum Autor Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety , Beyond Black , the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher . Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light , won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.
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'[A] novel that magically creates an illusion of the Age of Enlightenment. Hilary Mantel puts the stink of the eighteenth century into our nostrils' Independent
'A novelist of remarkable diversity...She writes about curiosity, companionship, art, love, death and eternity. She writes with wit, compassion and great elegance. Her books never fail to surprise, nor to delight: in this one she is at her very best - so far' Independent on Sunday
'Mantel can out-write most writers of her generation, male and female. What she has done here is disturbing, grievous and extraordinary.' Maggie Gee, Sunday Times
'Filled with bizarre happenings, brazen images and characters whose earthiness you can smell.' TES
'Hilary Mantel has felt herself into the poetics of history with singular intensity.' New York Review
'Pathos and humour as they are elsewhere in the book are blended to perfection.' Sunday Telegraph
'Simultaneously vigorous and poetic, full of satisfying earthy details.' Sunday Independent (Ireland)
