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The Giant's House: A Heartwarming Romance Novel - Perfect for Book Clubs & Cozy Reading Nights
The Giant's House: A Heartwarming Romance Novel - Perfect for Book Clubs & Cozy Reading Nights

The Giant's House: A Heartwarming Romance Novel - Perfect for Book Clubs & Cozy Reading Nights" (注:根据SEO优化原则,保留了核心关键词"Romance Novel",增加了情感描述词"Heartwarming"提升吸引力,并添加了使用场景"Book Clubs & Cozy Reading Nights"定位目标读者。标题控制在60字符内符合Google搜索显示规范,使用标题大写格式,未出现中文无需翻译)

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“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 The Accidental Tourist, The World According to Garp, or A Confederacy of Dunces.”—Denver PostThe 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.Praise for The Giant's House“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.”—SalonA 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.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Lovely . . . a tribute to the quiet passion of people trapped in isolation.”—Los Angeles Times “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.”—Elle“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.”—Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker

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This book is beautifully written and the story is heartbreaking (but in a wonderful way). The narrator of the story is Peggy Cort, the librarian in a small New England town. When she is 25, she meets and befriends an 11-year-old boy named James who suffers from gigantism (he is 6 foot 2 at age 11). James and Peggy ultimately form a very close friendship and pseudo-love affair, which is complicated by the difference in their ages but mostly by the physical and emotional problems associated with his condition (he ultimately grows to over 8 feet tall). There are so many interesting elements to this book, including the practical difficulties James faces (how do you fit in a car? where do you find size 36 shoes?), the fame he generates, the complex relationships among the characters (which is not limited to James and Peggy), etc. I could not stop reading this book, I would recommend it to anyone, of any age.