Let the great world spin : a novel
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Published
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2013].
Format
Book
Edition
2009 Random House trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction McCann, C
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Published
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2013].
Edition
2009 Random House trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"Philippe Petit walked a tightrope wire between the World Trade Center towers on August 7, 1974" (page [351]).
General Note
"A reader's guide"--Pages [355]-375.
General Note
Excerpt from "TransAtlantic" by Colum McCann copyright ♭2013 by Colum McCann (pages [379]-382).
Description
"A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. 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 gathers 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. A 38-year-old grandmother turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann's allegory comes alive in the voices of the city's people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the 'artistic crime of the century' -- A mysterious tightrope walker dancing between the Twin Towers"--From publisher's description.
Awards
National Book Award for Fiction, 2009.
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