Let the Great World Spin

Author(s): Colum McCann

Fiction

It's New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara, a drug-addled young artist; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; and Jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York. In the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for ever.


Product Information

Let the Great World Spin has received exceptional review coverage in America, France, UK and Ireland, and was a New York Times bestseller For fans of The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen and Underworld by Don Delilo Colum McCann's previous novels, Dancer, Zoli and This Side of Brightness, have been international bestsellers. He has been published in 25 countries.

Winner of International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011.

'An astonishing balancing act by a great writer prepared to take risks. A book to treasure' - Daily Mail

'A blockbuster, groundbreaking, heartbreaking, symphony of a novel ... No novelist writing of New York has climbed higher, dived deeper' - Frank McCourt

'McCann has reinvented the city of New York in all its breathing, fighting, whining, joyous clamour' - Peter Carey, Observer Books of the Year

'A wow of a novel - rich, humane, brilliantly written and as deep as it is wide' - The Times

General Fields

  • : 9781408801185
  • : Bloomsbury
  • : Bloomsbury Pb
  • : 0.55
  • : May 2010
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 22mm
  • : May 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Paperback
  • : Colum McCann