The Giant's House
Subtitle: A Romance
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: July 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780380730209
First sentence: I do not love mankind.
Table of contents: title: 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.