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Giant's Bread is a novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by Collins in April 1930 and in the US by Doubleday later in the same year. The dust jacket of the first UK edition was by the artist Margaret Macadam. Giant's Bread is the first of six novels Christie published under the pen name "Mary Westmacott". The New York Times review at the time said, “Whoever is concealed beneath the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott may well feel proud of Giant's Bread. The blurb lends mystery to Miss Westmacott's identity. She has written half a dozen successful books under her own name, it says, but they have been so different from Giant's Bread that she decided to have it 'judged on its own merits and not in the light of previous success.”
The novel opens with the premiere of The Giant, a modern opera based on the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk and performed at the newly opened London National Opera House. The work divides its audience, but the critic Carl Bowerman recognizes its originality and concludes that its composer, known publicly as Boris Groen, must be English. Boris is deemed the successor to the great Vernon Deyre, who was reported as killed during WW1. The narrative then recounts Vernon Deyre’s life and explores whether or not the two are the same.
GIANT'S BREAD
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