false 5941033 4 <b>An American masterpiece from internationally bestselling novelist Colum McCann—a dazzling and hauntingly rich vision of the loveliness, pain, and mystery of New York City in the 1970s</b><br><br>In the dawning light of the late summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. . . . It is August, 1974, and a tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter-mile in the sky. In the streets below, ordinary lives become extraordinary as award-winning novelist Colum McCann crafts this stunningly realized portrait of a city and its people.<br><br>Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among prostitutes in the Bronx. A group of mothers, gathered in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn the sons who died in Vietnam, discovers how much divides them even in their grief. Further uptown, Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenaged daughter, determined not only to take care of her “babies” but to prove her own worth.<br><br>Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann’s powerful novel comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the tightrope walker’s “artistic crime of the century.” <br><br>McCann’s most ambitious work to date, <i>Let the Great World Spin</i> is an unmistakable and triumphantly American masterpiece. 6113503 23 6 2009 Let the Great World Spin: A Novel total:382|5:143|4:167|3:50|2:17|1:5| 382 1572 1582 157 5 2 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 16:14:57 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 16:53:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jun 16 17:19:05 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 11:40:33 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 17:19:05 -0700 2009
What a facinating nway to write a book. One chapter you are listening to a womens club who meets because they have lost children...they see/hear of a man walking a tight rope between the Twin Tower...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 11:23:18 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 11:23:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 28 10:45:52 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 11:23:42 -0700 2009
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A bird's-eye view of 1970s New York
Column by Robert Weibezahl

To make sense of public tragedies, we generally turn to nonfiction, be it the immediacy of a newspaper account or the arm’s length perspective of the historian. But it ca...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 12:56:46 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 13:18:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 14:47:52 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 14:48:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 05:19:02 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 05:34:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 08 08:05:57 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 16:10:26 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 08:05:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 30 11:26:38 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 11:26:38 -0700 2009 Dancer, his risky fictionalized biography of ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev. In much the same way that Jay McInerney and Don DeLillo have become standard bearers for social commentary in American fiction, McCann writes about particular time...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 14:36:14 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 18:04:54 -0700 2009
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By interweaving the story of The Man of The Wire throughout the novel (somewhat Olive Kitteridge-ish style)...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Aug 26 02:56:12 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 02:56:12 -0700 2009 The Guardian: In the exact centre of this novel, poised, is a 10-page account of Philippe Petit's preparation for his 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre. Colum McCann's story of interlocking lives in New York is structured on either side of this interlude, and bear...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 15:50:01 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 15:43:28 -0700 2009
For those of us who remember August 1974, the overriding news was of Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam. We remember well the names Colson, Dean, Halderman, Er...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 11:06:32 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 13:36:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 07:22:20 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 20:11:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 17 09:01:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:09:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 11:25:47 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 18:28:56 -0700 2009 more...]]>