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Let the Great World Spin
- Author
- Colum McCann
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 16 June 2022
- Run Time
- 15 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
‘A wow of a novel – rich, humane, brilliantly written anda as deep as it is wide' The Times
'An astonishing balancing act by a great writer prepared to take risks. A book to treasure' Daily Mail
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New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky.
Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara, a drug-addled young artist; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; and Jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York.
In the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for ever.
Critics Review
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'An astonishing balancing act by a great writer prepared to take risks. A book to treasure'
Daily Mail
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'A blockbuster, groundbreaking, heartbreaking, symphony of a novel ... No novelist writing of New York has climbed higher, dived deeper'
Frank McCourt
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‘McCann has reinvented the city of New York in all its breathing, fighting, whining, joyous clamour'
Peter Carey, Observer Books of the Year
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‘A wow of a novel - rich, humane, brilliantly written and as deep as it is wide'
The Times
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Details
- Author
- Colum McCann
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 15 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 June 2022
- ISBN
- 9781526658883
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann, read by Richard Poe, Gerard Doyle, Carol Monda, Johanna Parker, Ramón de Ocampo, Chris Sorenson, Patricia R.Floyd, Jim Frangione, Alma Cuervo, Lizan Mitchell and Cherise Boothe.WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD‘A wow of a novel – rich, humane, brilliantly written anda as deep as it is wide' The Times'An astonishing balancing act by a great writer prepared to take risks. A book to treasure' Daily Mail________________________New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky.Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara, a drug-addled young artist; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; and Jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York.In the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for ever.
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