a new novel by Colum McCann
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An American masterpiece from internationally bestselling novelist Colum McCann: a dazzling, hauntingly rich vision of the beauty, pain, and mystery of New York City in the 1970s.
In the dawning light of this late summer morning, the residents of Lower Manhattan remain silent, staring in disbelief at the Twin Towers. . . . It is August 1974, and a tightrope walker runs, dances, jumps between the towers, suspended 400 meters in the sky. In the streets below, ordinary lives become extraordinary as award-winning novelist Colum McCann paints this breathtaking portrait of a city and its people.
Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons while living among prostitutes in the Bronx. A group of mothers, gathered in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, discover how divided they are even in their grief. Further on, Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, performs tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her babies but also to prove her own worth.
Elegantly weaving these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann's powerful novel comes to life in the unforgettable voices of the city's residents, unexpectedly brought together by the hope, beauty, and artistic crime of the century's tightrope walkers.
McCann's most ambitious work to date, Let the Great World Spin, is an indisputable and triumphantly American masterpiece.
Read by Colum McCann
Directed and edited by Giovanni Villari
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