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Original Title:	The Giant's House
ISBN:	0061120162 (ISBN13: 9780061120169)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Cape Cod, Massachusetts(United States) Massachusetts(United States)
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1996)

The Giant's House

Elizabeth McCracken

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 6589 Users | 832 Reviews

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Title	:	The Giant's House
Author	:	Elizabeth McCracken
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	July 3rd 2006 by Harper Perennial (first published June 1st 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Romance. Historical. Historical Fiction. Adult Fiction. Literary Fiction. Novels

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An unusual love story about a little librarian on Cape Cod and the tallest boy in the world, The Giant's House is the magical first novel from the author of the 1994 ALA Notable collection Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry.

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.

The Giant's House is an unforgettably tender and quirky novel about learning to welcome the unexpected miracle, and about the strength of choosing to love in a world that gives no promises, and no guarantees.

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The premise of the novel The Giants House reads like it was ripped from the headlines of a supermarket tabloid: LIBRARIAN WEDS GIANT! Its No TALL TALE! See page 13 for the Big Shocking Details!While its true that Elizabeth McCrackens novel is built around sensationalism and while its also true that the spinster librarian weds the worlds tallest man, its also true that this is one of the oddest, sweetest romances youll ever read.Nominated for the National Book Award in 1996, The Giants House is

The Giants House is told in retrospect from the first person perspective of librarian Peggy Cort. Thirty-five years after her story begins, Peggy is looking back on her life. From the outset, Peggys narrative voice is original and startling in places. She is such a charismatic, likeable narrator. Her narrative voice certainly has a distinctive style and is simultaneously chatty and eloquent, allowing the reader to be absorbed into her world from the outset. The novel addresses the audience as

While the book is undeniably well-written, I couldn't like the main character much. A lonely woman who falls in love with the young giant James Sweatt when he is eleven (!) failed to capture my sympathy. The book just seemed to be missing some spark of life, its passion seeming narrow and melancholy. It didn't help that Peggy makes it clear early on that James isn't going to survive. And the ending seemed purely unnecessary and improbable.

But you cannot fly away from people who have flown away from you; you cannot fly into your own arms...Once you have been left you are always left; you cannot leave your leaving.

I read this years ago but just came back to re-read it again. It's a quirky, bittersweet love story, and McCracken does such a good job of imagining her way into both the giant's body and the mind, and voice, of the woman who loves him. Lovely, sad, weird, and warm all at once.

I have mixed feelings about this book. It was entertaining, and I really liked the author's writing style (use of words). But I didn't like the main character. And while the author says it's a romance, it certainly didn't feel like a romance to me.While the main character says she's in love with "the giant", it seems to me more like motherly love than romantic love. I know there is a huge age difference, but it still seemed like a very odd sort of love. If she truly had a romantic love, it seems

I am addicted. From the moment I began reading (I'm only on page 35), I was hooked. Lock, stock and barrel. Wow! Perhaps it's the time of year. Perhaps it's the stunning freshness of style, compassion for her topic, perception of life, dexterous use of metaphor, imagery, irony and humor. I underline, annotate, circle on and on her aphorism, truths about single women, truths about librarians, truths about favorite patrons and the need to be needed. The need to impart, share, and advise patrons in