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The Giant's House Book

‘Every so often a novel comes along which transcends whimsy with the beauty of its writing. Elizabeth McCracken's small masterpiece is one of these' GuardianA powerful and unique story about connection, showing that miracles can happen – even across a library circulation desk.The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod twenty-eight year old librarian Peggy Cort feels as if love and life have stood her up. That is, 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 for ever. Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship. 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 foot, then eight – so does their most singular romance.*Perfect for readers who loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine*Read More

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  • ASDA

    Set in a small town on Cape Cod in 1950 this tells of the relationship between Peggy Cort a 28-year-old librarian and James Carlson Sweatt an over-tall 11-year-old. They are odd candidates for friendship but they still find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted.

  • Amazon Review

    An unlikely love story about a lonely spinster librarian and a younger man, forced into loneliness because of his monstrous size. Peggy Cort, the reclusive librarian in a small Cape Cod town falls for a boy 14 years her junior -- one who grows to be 8 feet 7 inches and 415 pounds. Though initially attracted out of sympathy, Peggy soon finds she has much in common with this sensitive, albeit enormous man. A romance ensues, but the unique connectedness they share -- something neither has ever felt before -- is cruelly interrupted by tragedy.

  • 0099739917
  • 9780099739913
  • Elizabeth McCracken
  • 4 September 1997
  • Vintage
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
  • New edition
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