The Giants House, Elizabeth McCracken
The Giants House, Elizabeth McCracken
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The Giant's House
A Romance

Author: Elizabeth McCracken

Narrator: Vivienne Leheny

Unabridged: 11 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/04/2018

Synopsis

National Book Award FinalistThe year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod, 26-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt—the ""over-tall"" 11-year-old boy who's the talk of the town—walks into her library and changes her life. Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship, but nevertheless, they find their lives intertwined in ways neither one could have predicted. And as James grows - six-foot-five at age 12, then seven feet, then eight—so does Peggy's heart and their most singular romance.This production includes a bonus excerpt from Elizabeth McCracken’s next audiobook, Bowlaway.

About Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books, including The Hero of This Book, The Souvenir Museum (long-listed for the National Book Award), Bowlaway, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize and long-listed for the National Book Award), and The Giant’s House (a National Book Award finalist). Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories five times, and have won three Pushcart Prizes, two National Magazine Awards, and an O. Henry Prize. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently holds the James A. Michener Chair in Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alison

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......more

Goodreads review by Patricija || book.duo

5/5 „Vis dėlto, buvau miestelio bibliotekininkė – veikiau visuomenės nuosavybė nei moteris, visai kaip balsavimo mašina savivaldybėje arba niekuo neišsiskirianti pilietinė freska.“ Turbūt geriausia šiemet perskaityta knyga, kurią norisi išvien cituoti ir ištisas pastraipas pasibraukti. Šilta, jauki, t......more

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