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Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
A Novel
Random House
July 2009
On Sale: June 23, 2009
368 pages
ISBN: 1400063736
EAN: 9781400063734
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of
lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the
Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope
walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers,
suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets
below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in
bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate
portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed
author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision
of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York
City in the 1970s. Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own
demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of
the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park
Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam,
only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A
young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run
that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a
thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside
her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of
her family but to prove her own worth.
Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly
disparate lives, McCann’s powerful allegory comes alive in
the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly
drawn together by hope, beauty, and the “artistic crime of
the century.†A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the
Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of
transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight,
heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a “fiercely original
talent†(San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist
McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece
that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve,
confront, and even heal.
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