num_pages: 290
description: Named one of the 20 Best Young American Novelists by Granta magazine, Elizabeth McCracken is a writer of fabulous gifts. "The Giant's 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 who's 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 Peggy's heart and their most singular romance.
language: English
title: The Giant's House
titlecomplete: The Giant's House
genres: Literature, Books About Books, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 7465
places: Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Avon Books