00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862097575 Buklod 20170810111954.0 g||| | || || ta 170810t20102009nyu r |000 f|eng d 9780812973990 (iLib)UPBAG-00025004108 OhioLINK BAG rda PR 6063 C335 L47 2010 McCann, Colum 1965- author. Let the great world spin a novel Colum McCann. Random House trade paperback edition. New York Random House Trade Paperbacks 2010, ©2009. 375 pages 21 cm "A reader's guide" -- pages [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. National Book Award winner. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PR 6063 C335 L47 2010 Book