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Author:

McCann, Colum, 1965-

Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

©2009

Description:

349 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Petit, Philippe,--1949---Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Irish--New York--New York--Fiction.
Judges' spouses--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Teenage mothers--Fiction.
Tightrope walking--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Nineteen seventies--Fiction.
Irish fiction--21st century.
Teenage mothers--Fiction.
Fictional Works.
Petit, Philippe,--1949-
Grief.
Immigrants.
Irish.
Judges' spouses.
Nineteen seventies.
Teenage mothers.
Tightrope walking.
New York (State)--New York.
Petit, Philippe--1949-
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alltag
Seiltänzer
World Trade Center--New York, NY
Petit, Philippe,--(1949- ... ;--funambule)
Grief--Fiction.
Irish--New York--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Judges' spouses--Fiction.
Teenage mothers--Fiction.
Geschichte 1974.
Psychological fiction.
Belletristische Darstellung.
Psychological fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Contents:

Roaring seaward, and I go. Miro, miro, on the wall -- A fear of love -- Tag -- Etherwest -- This is the house that horse built -- Part of the parts -- Centavos -- All hail and hallelujah -- Roaring seaward, and I go.

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 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. 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 description.

ISBN:

0812973992
9780812973990
1400063736
9781400063734

OCLC:

(OCoLC)268957352

LCCN:

2008046963

Locations:

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo) — Copies: 6 — Kit notes: +14LP+2AV