This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book

This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear. It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear. It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

A very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has an old bookstore sticker on the cover. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.

A very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has an old bookstore sticker on the cover. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.

This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have

This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.

With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The

With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Size: 5x1x9; Brand new.

Size: 5x1x9; Brand new.

Size: 5x1x9; First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title

Size: 5x1x9; First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Top edge lightly foxed, minor wrinkle down center of front jacket panel (publisher defect? ). 1996 Hard Cover. 259 pp. National Book Award finalist. "An unusual love story about a little librarian on Cape Cod and the tallest boy in the world, The Giant's House is the magical first novel from the author of the 1994 ALA Notable collection Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry. The 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. The Giant's House is an unforgettably tender and quirky novel about learning to welcome the unexpected miracle, and about the strength of choosing to love in a world that gives no promises, and no guarantees.