“One of the most electric, profound novels…in years. “The first great 9/11 novel…” – Esquire Magazine 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 (See Frank’s full review on ) 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 Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. “This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it’s a damned lot of fun to read, too. ’s “Books You Can’t Put Down” Summer Reading SelectionĪ Best-Seller on Four continents including New York Times Best-Seller McCann’s most ambitious work to date, Let the Great World Spin is an unmistakable and triumphantly American masterpiece.Ģ010 Best Foreign Novel Award Weshanhu Award (China)Ģ010 Aspen Literary Prize, Aspen Writer’s Foundation A group of mothers, gathered in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn the sons who died in Vietnam, discovers how much divides them even in their grief.įurther uptown, Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenaged daughter, determined not only to take care of her “babies” but to prove her own worth.Įlegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann’s powerful novel comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the tightrope walker’s “artistic crime of the century.” In the streets below, ordinary lives become extraordinary as award-winning novelist Colum McCann crafts this stunningly realized portrait of a city and its people.Ĭorrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among prostitutes in the Bronx. It is August, 1974, and a tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter-mile in the sky. Looking for a reading guide? Click here to download itĪn American masterpiece from internationally bestselling novelist Colum McCann-a dazzling and hauntingly rich vision of the loveliness, pain, and mystery of New York City in the 1970s In the dawning light of the late summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers… Click here to download an excerpt of the book
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