Once in awhile you come across a book, that due to some circumstance speaks to you a little louder and clearer than the others. This for me was that book. A novel created from a series of interwoven stories (each chapter depicts another character in the narrative,) it all surrounds the actual tight rope walk between the two towers at the World Trade Center, while the building was being finished in the early 1970s.(One of the first acts of gorilla art in the US.) The writing (as I would expect from any Irishman) was lyrical and really managed to catch both the beauty and the tragedy of the characters lives. The one theme that seemed to resonate through the book is really about how life is a series of events... each in it's own time, and each with consequence which culminates in the genesis of yet another unique event. It is in the strinigng of these events (like the narrative itself with it's different stories surrounding the same event and largely interconnected) that we define our lives, relationships, accomplishments and regrets.

I am really looking forward to his next novel, and really feel this was a terrific book.