| Description |
1 online resource (349 pages) |
| 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. |
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Description based on print version record |
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B002BWQ6H6 (Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN)) |
| System Details |
Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2055 KB). |
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Immigrants -- Fiction.
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Irish fiction -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Judges' spouses -- Fiction.
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Grief -- Fiction.
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Teenage mothers -- Fiction.
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Petit, Philippe, 1949- -- Fiction.
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Tightrope walking -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Psychological fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McCann, Colum, 1965- Let the great world spin 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2009 9781400063734 1400063736 (DLC) 2008046963 (OCoLC)268957352 |
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9781588368737 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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1588368734 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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