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The Giant's House (Paperback)
by Elizabeth McCracken (Author)
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Product details
  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New Ed edition (4 Sep 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099739917
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099739913
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 223,129 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Synopsis
Set in a small town on Cape Cod in 1950, this tells of the relationship between Peggy Cort, a 28-year-old librarian, and James Carlson Sweatt, an "over-tall" 11-year-old. They are odd candidates for friendship, but they still find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted.

About the Author
Elizabeth McCracken was born in Boston in 1966. Since the age of 15 she has been a librarian first at the Newton (Mass.) Free Library, then the University of Pennsylvania humanities and social science library. She was the Circulation Desk Chief at the Somerville (Mass.) Public Library until the fall of 1995. She has had fellowships from the University of Iowa; the Michener Foundation; and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Somerville Arts Council; and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she was twice a fellow. Her work has been shortlisted for the National Book Award and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michener Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was also honoured as one of Granta's 20 Best American Writers Under 40.

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