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.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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