Let the great world spin

Resource Information

The work Let the great world spin represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Let the great world spin

Statement of responsibility

Colum McCann

Creator

• McCann, Colum, 1965- | 1965-

Author

• McCann, Colum, 1965- | 1965-

Subject

• Irish -- New York (State) -- New York | Fiction
• Judges' spouses -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
• Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
• Grief -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Teenage mothers -- Fiction
• Tightrope walking -- Fiction
• Petit, Philippe, 1949- -- Fiction
• Immigrants -- Fiction

Genre

• Psychological fiction
• New York
• Fiction

Language

eng

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

Awards note

Winner of the National Book Award.

Cataloging source

UKM

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels