Giants House : A Romance

English

ISBN: 0380730200

EAN: 9780380730209

Category: Fiction / Romance / General

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 07/01/1997

Synopsis: Named one of the 20 Best Young American Novelists by Granta magazine, Elizabeth McCracken is a writer of fabulous gifts. The Giants House, her first novel, is an unforgettably tender and quirky novel about the strength of choosing to love in a world that offers no promises, and no guarantees.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 whos 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 find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted. And as James grows--six foot five at age twelve, then seven feet, then eight--so does Peggys heart and their most singular romance.Named one of the 20 Best Young American Novelists by Granta magazine, Elizabeth McCracken is a writer of fabulous gifts. The Giants House, her first novel, is an unforgettably tender and quirky novel about the strength of choosing to love in a world that offers no promises, and no guarantees. 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 whos 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 find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted. And as James grows--six foot five at age twelve, then seven feet, then eight--so does Peggys heart and their most singular romance.

Awards: Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award – null  National Book Awards – null  Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year – null 

Giants House : A Romance

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.11 inches

Width: 5.11 inches

Length: 8.11 inches

Weight: 96.19 oz

Pages: 304