{"product_id":"let-the-great-world-spin-paperback","title":"Let the Great World Spin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eColum McCann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - Colum McCann's beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit's daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film \u003ci\u003eThe Walk\u003c\/i\u003e starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003c\/i\u003e is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Corrigan, 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 gather 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. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann's powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city's people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the \"artistic crime of the century.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA sweeping and radical social novel, \u003ci\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ecaptures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a \"fiercely original talent\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it'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. There's so much passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of \u003ci\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003c\/i\u003e that you'll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed.\"\u003cb\u003e--Dave Eggers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunning . . .  an] elegiac glimpse of hope . . . It's a novel rooted firmly in time and place. It 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.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The first great 9\/11 novel . . . We are all dancing on the wire of history, and even on solid ground we breathe the thinnest of air.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Mesmerizing . . . a Joycean look at the lives of New Yorkers changed by a single act on a single day . . . Colum McCann's marvelously rich novel . . . weaves a portrait of a city and a moment, dizzyingly satisfying to read and difficult to put down.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Vibrantly whole . . . With a series of spare, gorgeously wrought vignettes, Colum McCann brings 1970s New York to life. . . . And as always, McCann's heart-stoppingly simple descriptions wow.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An act of pure bravado, dizzying proof that to keep your balance you need to know how to fall.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColum McCann\u003c\/b\u003e is the internationally bestselling author of the novels \u003ci\u003eTransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Songdogs, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He has received many honors, including the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres award from the French government, and the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He has been named one of \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Best and Brightest,\" and his short film \u003ci\u003eEverything in This Country Must\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. A contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Paris Review, \u003c\/i\u003e he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children, and he is the cofounder of the global nonprofit story exchange organization, Narrative 4.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 8.01 x 5.78 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722616639551,"sku":"9780812973990","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/dec84d5e3cca5aa37262b94995d25610.webp?v=1765096355","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/let-the-great-world-spin-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}