{"product_id":"the-giants-house-a-romance-paperback","title":"The Giant's House: A Romance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth McCracken\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"McCracken mixes the proper amount of lunacy with exactly the right amount of sorrow. The blend is reminiscent of such late-20th-century treasures as \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental Tourist, The World According to Garp\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Giant's House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Remarkable . . . McCracken has wit and subtlety to burn, as well as an uncanny ability to tap into the sadness that runs through the center of her characters' worlds. This book is so lovely that, when you're reading, you'll want to sleep with it under your pillow.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA true marvel . . . thoroughly enjoyable from its unlikely beginning to its bittersweet end. . . McCracken knows all kinds of subtle, enticing secrets of the heart and conveys them in silky, transparent language.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Lovely . . . a tribute to the quiet passion of people trapped in isolation.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fascinating . . . The reader finds herself entangled, body and soul, in this tender and endlessly strange novel, which is in all senses a hymn to human growth gone haywire and to a love so big it can't hold its own magnificent limbs upright.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eElle\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Such is the incantatory power of McCracken's eccentric tale that by its close we are completely in the grip of its strangely conceived ardor. . . . McCracken is as original a writer as they come. . . . I fell in love.\"\u003cb\u003e--Daphne Merkin, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth McCracken is the recipient of the Harold Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the PEN\/Winship Award. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, and Michener foundation, the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was also honored as one of \u003ci\u003eGranta's\u003c\/i\u003e 20 Best Writers Under 40.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762136121632,"sku":"9780385340892","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7fe53f7ed446615fd11f225f82605059.webp?v=1780218277","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-giants-house-a-romance-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}