Let the Great World Spin: A Novel.

McCann, Colum

Published by Random House, New York, 2009

About this Item

First edition of the author's classic work, winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Colum McCann on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robbin Schiff and Anna Bauer. Jacket drawing by Matteo Pericoli. 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 McCannâ s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed authorâ s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. â This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and itâ s a damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. Thereâ s so much passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the Great World Spin that youâ ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed" (Dave Eggers).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel.
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition