02069cam a2200361 4500 432944953 TxAuBib 20200101120000.0 090916t20102009||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780812973990 0812973992 (OCoLC)437298693 BTCTA BTCTA LAS ZHC TxAuBib McCann, Colum, 1965- Let the great world spin : a novel / Colum McCann. Random House trade pbk. ed. New York : Random House, 2010. ©2009. 375 p. ; 21 cm. "A reader's guide" -- p. [355]-375. 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. 20200101. Petit, Philippe 1949- Fiction. Immigrants Fiction. Irish New York (State) New York Fiction. Judges' spouses Fiction. Grief Fiction. Teenage mothers Fiction. Tightrope walking Fiction. Nineteen seventies Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Psychological fiction.