LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
From the author of the beloved novel "The Giant's House--"finalist for the National Book Award--comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with the humor, the empathy, and the rare and magical descriptive powers that ha[...]
Named a New York Times Notable Book for 2001, and embraced by booksellers as a Book Sense 76 selection in hardcover, the second novel by the acclaimed author of The Giant's House tells a hilarious and soulful story, narrated by the straight man of a comedy team. Powerful and bittersweet, Niagara Fal[...]
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 wh[...]
Peggy Cort är tjugosex år och bibliotekarie i en liten kuststad på Cape Cod i femtiotalets USA. Hon är bitsk och ensam och delar in mänskligheten i två grupper: låntagare (som hon gör allt för) och resten (som hon inte har mycket till övers för).
En dag kommer James in på biblioteket[...]