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Let The Great World Spin by Colin McCann (Great Condition)

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Condition
Very good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Type
Novel
Narrative Type
Fiction
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780812973990
Book Title
Let the Great World Spin : a Novel
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
2009
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Colum Mccann
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Psychological, Urban, Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Width
5.1 in
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812973992
ISBN-13
9780812973990
eBay Product ID (ePID)
78523817

Product Key Features

Book Title
Let the Great World Spin : a Novel
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Psychological, Urban, Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Colum Mccann
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

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Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"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 Let the Great World Spin that you'll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed." Dave Eggers, editor of McSweeney's and author of What Is the What "In his own gritty and lyrical voice, Colum McCann has lifted up a handful of souls to the light in this big-hearted, adroit and probing novel, and brought forth a spectrum of the painful, the beautiful and the unexpected." Amy Bloom, author of Away "Every character grabs you by the throat and makes you care. McCann's dazzling polyphony walks the high wire and succeeds triumphantly." Emma Donoghue, author of The Sealed Letter "What a book! Complex and captivating---a very sensual novel." John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas "Now I worry about Colum McCann. What is he going to do after this blockbuster groundbreaking heartbreaking symphony of a novel? No novelist writing of New York has climbed higher, dived deeper." Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes "With Philippe Petit's breathless 1974 tightrope walk between the uncompleted WTC towers at its axis, Colum McCann offers us a lyrical cycloramic high-low portrait of New York City in its days of burning; Park Avenue matrons, Bronx junkies, Center Street judges, downtown artists and their uptown subway-tagging brethren, street priests, weary cops, wearier hookers, grieving mothers of an Asian war freshly put to bed; a masterful chorus of voices all obliviously connected by the most ephemeral vision; a pin-dot of a man walking on air 110 stories above their heads." Richard Price, author of Lush Life
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Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * Colum McCann's beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit's daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt 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 McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin 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. 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." A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a "fiercely original talent" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), 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. Praise for Let the Great World Spin "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 Let the Great World Spin that you'll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed." --Dave Eggers "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." -- USA Today "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." -- Esquire "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." -- The Seattle Times "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." -- Entertainment Weekly "An act of pure bravado, dizzying proof that to keep your balance you need to know how to fall." -- O: The Oprah Magazine, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - Colum McCann's beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit's daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt 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 McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin 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. 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." A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a "fiercely original talent" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), 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. Praise for Let the Great World Spin "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 Let the Great World Spin that you'll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed." --Dave Eggers "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." -- USA Today "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." -- Esquire "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." -- The Seattle Times "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." -- Entertainment Weekly "An act of pure bravado, dizzying proof that to keep your balance you need to know how to fall." -- O: The Oprah Magazine
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  • by atra2176
    13 Jan, 2016Top favourable review

    A Literary Masterpiece

    One of the great books of this time, this novel provides perspective on what truly matters in life. PDF, Audiobook, paperback, hardcover, any way you read it, the story will exert greatness. 100 percent recommend.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: booksforamerica

  • by maryelleneguerra
    24 Jul, 2019Top critical review

    Crazy combination of characters and events.

    I had read this book and ordered it as a gift. But my "brand new" book was definitely not new. The cover had a small crease and the lower right corner of the cover and a few pages was dog eared. There was a corner of a page in the middle that was turned down and the bottom pages were abraded. So this gift was a loss. I didn't report this earlier because I was traveling and didn't see the book until my chance to return it was past.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: ysoclever

  • by georgiakprometheus
    03 Mar, 2012

    Let the Great World Sing ... With an Irish Accent

    I could read, listening in my head, Colum McCann forever. Within three pages I was hooked. Different from TC Boyle in that McCann is less ironic, but the lilt, ah the lilt, and the clever puns, and the rhythm. Maybe I should consider books on tape, providing that this one was read by someone with a brogue. Not sure where this book would fall chronologically with the recent plethora of art (mainly movies, I guess) that are premised on concurrent lives during a given period of time, but this theme is a certain six degrees of separation ... several intertwined lives on the day that Phillipe Petit walked his wire between the two World Trade Centers. That selection of a day in the life itself sets the tone. The day Petit waked was magic, hopeful, mythic, a positive memory for more than just ...

  • by styledealdiva
    25 Sep, 2010

    A must-read!

    “It had never occurred to me before,” one character says, “but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.” A unique tale that intertwines the lives of several people that live in New York in 1974. An Irish monk living in the Bronx projects fighting off the Vice Squad, a Guatemalan nurse who loves a doomed man, a Park Avenue mother in mourning for her dead son, blown up in a café in Saigon. There are computer hackers who "visit" New York in an early echo of the Internet and an artist who learns to love simply, but not before causing a terrible tragedy. And of course, a kind-hearted hooker. There's always one of those. I must admit that I had a hard time getting through that short prologue, but read ...

  • by sandihansen1
    27 Oct, 2015

    Text book

    This was purchased as one of my daughter's text books. Haven't read it, but the condition of the book was good and it arrived in good time.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: wonderbooks

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