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The Giant's House: A Romance by Elizabeth McCracken (Paperback / softback, 2007)

An unusual love story about a little librarian on Cape Cod and the tallest boy in the world, The Giant's House is the magical first vel from the author of the 1994 ALA Notable collection Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry.The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod twenty-six-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt--the over tall eleven-year-old boy who's the talk of the town--walks into her library and changes her life forever. Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship, but nevertheless they soon find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted. In James, Peggy discovers the one person who's ever really understood her, and as he grows--six foot five at age twelve, then seven feet, then eight--so does her heart and their most singular romance. The Giant's House is an unforgettably tender and quirky vel about learning to welcome the unexpected miracle, and about the strength of choosing to love in a world that gives promises, and guarantees.

Date of Publication
30/10/2007
Country of Publication
United States
Author Biography
Elizabeth McCracken is the recipient of the Harold Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Winship Award. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, and Michener foundation, the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was also honored as one of Granta s 20 Best Writers Under 40.

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