The Giant's House by Elizabeth Mccracken
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.
McCracken, Elizabeth: -
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of five books, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry (stories), The Giant's House (a National Book Award finalist), Niagara Falls All Over Again, the memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, and Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize, long-listed for the National Book Award), three of which were New York Times Notable Books. She has received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780380730209 |
| ISBN 10 | 0380730200 |
| Title | The Giant's House |
| Author | Elizabeth Mccracken |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harper Perennial |
| Year published | 1997-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Discover Great New Writers (Fiction) 1996 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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