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Author:

McCann, Colum, 1965-

Title:

Let the great world spin : a novel / Colum McCann.

Edition:

Random House trade pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

2010, c2009

Description:

375 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Immigrants--Fiction.
Irish--New York--New York--Fiction.
Judges' spouses--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Teenage mothers--Fiction.
Petit, Philippe,--1949---Fiction.
Tightrope walking--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Nineteen seventies--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Notes:

"A reader's guide" -- p. [355]-375.

Summary:

A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. 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 gathers 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. A 38-year-old grandmother turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann's allegory comes alive in the voices of the city's people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the "artistic crime of the century"--a mysterious tightrope walker dancing between the Twin Towers.--From publisher's description.

ISBN:

0812973992
9780812973990

OCLC:

(OCoLC)437298693

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

OGPC877 -- Lenox Public Library (Lenox)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

GMPD771 -- Pleasant Hill Public Library (Pleasant Hill)

ESPD725 -- Sibley Public Library (Sibley)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

GPPC641 -- Gutekunst Public Library (State Center)

RSSX851 -- Roland-Story High School Media Center (Story City)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

XGPC697 -- Villisca Public Library (Villisca)

VMPC334 -- West Union Community Library (West Union)