商品の説明

Named one of the 20 Best Young American Novelists by Granta magazine, Elizabeth McCracken is a writer of fabulous gifts. The Giant's House, her first novel, is an unforgettably tender and quirky novel about the strength of choosing to love in a world that offers no promises, and no guarantees.

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 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 find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted. And as James grows--six foot five at age twelve, then seven feet, then eight--so does Peggy's heart and their most singular romance.Named one of the 20 Best Young American Novelists by Granta magazine, Elizabeth McCracken is a writer of fabulous gifts. The Giant's House, her first novel, is an unforgettably tender and quirky novel about the strength of choosing to love in a world that offers no promises, and no guarantees.

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 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 find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted. And as James grows--six foot five at age twelve, then seven feet, then eight--so does Peggy's heart and their most singular romance.

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #473719 / 本
• 発売日: 1999-07
• 版型: 単行本
• 390 ページ

内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
わたしは司書、影のような。彼は少年、巨人症の。初めて会ったとき、彼はまだ十一歳。悠然としたとびきりのノッポの少年、実はその体の中では、ある病が進行中だった―いきなり全米図書賞にノミネートされた、実力派新人の処女長編。

内容（「MARC」データベースより）
わたしは司書、影のような。彼は少年、巨人症の。悠然としたとびきりのノッポの少年の体の中では、ある病が進行中だった。図書館で出会った二つの魂が、長い年月を経て触れ合った時…。

Amazon.com
An unlikely love story about a lonely spinster librarian and a younger man, forced into loneliness because of his monstrous size. Peggy Cort, the reclusive librarian in a small Cape Cod town falls for a boy 14 years her junior -- one who grows to be 8 feet 7 inches and 415 pounds. Though initially attracted out of sympathy, Peggy soon finds she has much in common with this sensitive, albeit enormous man. A romance ensues, but the unique connectedness they share -- something neither has ever felt before -- is cruelly interrupted by tragedy.

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子供のような大人の女性の成長物語
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一般的に25歳の女性が11歳のå°'å¹'に恋ã‚'するという設定は様ã€...な点で不自然だ
と思うのですが、悲ã-みやæ€'りという感æƒ...は認識できても、軽è"'や憐れみと
いった感æƒ...ã‚'認識できないというã"とは、ä¸-é-"に対ã-てæ"¦ã‚Œã¦ã„ないというã"

とであり、ペギーの精神的な幼さには本物だと思える説å¾-力があります。æ-¢ã«
大人と同じだã'の身長ã‚'持ち、ç-...身であるために大人びてもいるå°'å¹'が相手な
ら、恋愛もありå¾-るというæ°-がã-てきます。恋愛と言っても、出発点は子供が
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みどã!"ろだと思います。