Let the Great World Spin

Colum McCann · 2009 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

On an August morning in 1974 a tightrope walker steps between the Twin Towers, and ten New York lives, from a monk in the Bronx to a judge and a grieving mother, are turned toward him. An Irish writer's novel of New York in its most ragged decade.

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