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Loading... The Giant's House: A Romanceby Elizabeth McCracken
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The sweetest, strangest, and saddest love story ever written. Quirky, funny, and filled with brilliant observations--the sort that make you elbow your nearest neighbor every five minutes to read out loud to them. It's one of the only books I've ever read that gave me the urge to turn back to the beginning and read it again as soon as I finished it. (  ) RachelWeaver | Nov 20, 2009 |  It is the 1950s. Peggy Cort is a 20-something spinster librarian in Brewsterville, a small town on Cape Cod. Her library is her life until a very tall 12-year-old boy named James Sweatt comes into that library one day with his class. Peggy's life is never the same. James is a giant, literally, and Peggy develops a soft spot for him and, as he grows older, falls in love with him. Well-written book with an interesting take on unrecquited and unconditional love and also the medical condition of "giantism." (  ) CatieN | Oct 4, 2009 | This is an unforgetable book. The first person narative of a librarian who struggles with her realization that her growing friendship with the ever growing younger man who visits her library regularly is an intriguing love story. James is high school student in the beginning of the story and Peggy is the small town librarian. Later on there is involvement with the circus. The end is totally unique but completes the whole thing very well. (  ) MarthaL | Sep 3, 2009 | Very interest premise but was disappointed in the ending - an ending that has been used many times before. (  ) brsquilt | Aug 9, 2009 | A spinster librarian improbably falls in love with a younger boy/man who has a growth disorder that makes him very tall. A very sweet and unusual love story. (  ) alaskabookworm | Apr 25, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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