05937cam a2200805 4500 463270298 TxAuBib 20201218120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781588368737 1588368734 B002BWQ6H6 Amazon 01d9c580-a30a-4fcf-9509-776a376d74d8 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 110437 110437 110437 202980 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McCann, Colum, 1965- Let the Great World Spin [Libby] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2009. award winner. family. relationships. Vietnam. Friendship. literary fiction. relationship. family life. Urban Fiction. contemporary fiction. Fiction. novels. love. 20th Century. Historical Fiction. Family relationships. grief. Twin Towers. New York. Urban. new york city. bronx. World Trade Center. National Book Award. American Literature. Literary. historical literary fiction. 1974. historical novels. national book award winner. new york times best sellers. national book award finalists. best sellers list new york times. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4273kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML: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. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic. “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. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award. Notable Books for Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-18 22:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/01D/9C5/80/LettheGreatWorldSpin9781588368737.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=01D9C580-A30A-4FCF-9509-776A376D74D8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/01D/9C5/80/LettheGreatWorldSpin9781588368737.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=01D9C580-A30A-4FCF-9509-776A376D74D8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/01D/9C5/80/LettheGreatWorldSpin9781588368737.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=01D9C580-A30A-4FCF-9509-776A376D74D8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)