A beautiful, sometimes bewilderingly strange love story, showing that miracles can happen - even across a library circulation desk.
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of An Exact Replica of My Imagination, The Giant's House, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, and Niagara Falls All Over Again. A former public librarian, she is now a faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin. Her work has been shortlisted for the National Book Award and she was also chosen as one of Granta's 20 Best American Writers Under 40.
The most original and enchanting romance I have read in a long
time
*The Times*
McCracken avoids the temptations of easy humour and writes with
great pathos and delicacy about the complexities of love
*Observer*
The lucid, compelling prose convinces us that this mismatched pair
do become a real couple: improbably, disturbingly, and very
movingly, theirs is a true love story
*Sunday Times*
The Giant's House is the work of a writer who is as singular and
astute as the characters she creates... funny, ambitious and
precise... a beautifully composed portrait of people struggling
against themselves with the full force of their courage and
desire
*Times Literary Supplement*
Every so often a novel comes along which transcends whimsy with the
beauty of its writing. Elizabeth McCracken's small masterpiece is
one of these
*G2*
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