9781400063734
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
ISBN 13: 9781400063734
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
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In a tale set in Manhattan of 1974, a radical young Irish monk struggles with personal demons while making his home among Bronx prostitutes, a group of mothers is separated by personal differences in spite of shared grief over their lost Vietnam soldier sons, and a young grandmother attempts to prove her worth by soliciting men at the side of her teenage daughter.
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"McCann....goes out....on his own literary tightrope. He weaves an ambitious mosaic....[of] lives [that] intersect in surprising yet believable ways.....[LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN] vividly captures New York at its worst and best. But it transcends all that. In the end, it's a novel about families - the ones we're born into and the ones we make for ourselves."
Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today, 07/03/2009
Review:"[Philippe] Petit's stunt acts as a centerline on which McCann hangs the stories of a dozen spiritually disheveled characters, each searching for an alcove of silence in a clamorous city."
Mike Peed, Washington Post, 07/15/2009
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