Colum McCann

Colum McCann’s marvelous, boisterous 2009 novel Let the Great World Spin takes that walk and makes that walk the point of connection between several very different people who happened to see Petit that morning.

the critically acclaimed authoryet: ’s most ambitious novel a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s

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.

McCann

McCann is the author of Let the Great World Spin, one of the most beautiful short story collections I've ever read.

the people a city, a country and a world without judgment or prejudice of a borough,

Let The Great World Spin, the sixth novel by Colum McCann, is a hurricane of a book, whirling around the streets of New York and beyond, capturing souls within its twists, carrying them high in the air, rattling their very bones until their secrets and shameful pasts, their moments of kindness and generosity, pour onto the ground below and define the people of a borough, a city, a country and a world without judgment or prejudice, but with the compassion and humanity that only a great writer can provide.

Philippe Petit

Let The Great World Spin is centered around Philippe Petit's amazing World Trade Center tightrope walk in 1974.

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As Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ... Colum McCann should need no introduction to readers of contemporary fiction; Colum McCann's 2009 novel 'Let The Great World Spin' is one of the 21st century's most celebrated novels thus far — with a NationalBook Award and an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award among ... NEW YORK

the story of a dozen or so New Yorkers, , most connected in other ways a dozen or so New Yorkers don’t yet know

Colum McCann’s 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin, is the story of a dozen or so New Yorkers, most connected in other ways a dozen or so New Yorkers don’t yet know, or may never know–an Irishman who belongs to an unnamed religious order and serves the prostitutes and the elderly, a dozen or so New Yorkers's brother who comes in search of something and returns to Ireland with a wife–an American artist, a mother and daughter prostitute, two women united by the loss of a dozen or so New Yorkers's sons in Vietnam, and more.

the brilliantly insightful ‘Letters ’ to a Young Writer

From the fabulous publishing house, Bloomsbury, comes another jewel in their very big and very decorative crown; from critically acclaimed author Colum McCann the author of the National Book Award winner ‘Let the Great World Spin’ comes the brilliantly insightful ‘Letters to a Young Writer’.

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Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin gave depth and dimension, sorrow and joy to black and Latina sex workers.

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Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin gave depth and dimension, sorrow and joy to black and Latina sex workers.

in New York with a wide array of characters: hookers under a freeway overpass in the Bronx, an Irishman living in the projects nearby ; an affluent Park Avenue matron who’s lost in grief; an ambitious teen photographer obsessed with subway taggers; a group of early computer programmers who is kind to Media Kit without ever telling Media Kit Media Kit’s a monk

Colum McCann’s novel ‘Let the Great World Spin’ is set in New York in 1974, with a wide array of characters: hookers under a freeway overpass in the Bronx, an Irishman living in the projects nearby who is kind to Media Kit without ever telling Media Kit Media Kit’s a monk; an affluent Park Avenue matron who’s lost in grief; an ambitious teen photographer obsessed with subway taggers; a group of early computer programmers.

one of Mickey Sumner's six best books

Let the Great World Spin is one of Mickey Sumner's six best books.

John Alcock's 2009 novel “— with a National Book Award and an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award among an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award's lauds

Colum McCann should need no introduction to readers of contemporary fiction; John Alcock's 2009 novel “Let The Great World Spin” is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated novels thus far — with a National Book Award and an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award among an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award's lauds.

Charlie Parker's novel

Charlie Parker's novel Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann writes about the character (based on Philippe Petit who walked a wire between the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center on 7August1974).

and then a selection from sean-nos (old-style) singer nonpareil Iarla O Lionaird's own work from James Joyce’s Ulysses with comic insight

Dublin-born Colum McCann, author of the acclaimed novel Let the Great World Spin, read a passage from James Joyce’s Ulysses with comic insight and then a selection from sean-nos (old-style) singer nonpareil Iarla O Lionaird's own work.

“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” by Michael Chabon““ , The Fortress of Solitude” by Jonathan Lethem,

(“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” by Michael Chabon, “The Fortress of Solitude” by Jonathan Lethem, “Let the Great World Spin” by Colum McCann” and “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner).

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spin was written by Dan Waddell (@danwaddell) and Paula Higgins (@justamusicprof).

by Dan Waddell

spin was written by Dan Waddell (@danwaddell) and Paula Higgins (@justamusicprof).

the first book for Ginia Bellafante’s Big City Book Club, a New York Times online book discussion forum

Let The Great World Spin was the first book for Ginia Bellafante’s Big City Book Club, a New York Times online book discussion forum.

Irving Berlin

The classic was written by Irving Berlin, one of the most prolific American composers in history.