Let the great world spin: a novel
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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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Subjects
Subjects
African American Fiction
Fiction
Grief
Grief -- Fiction
Immigrants
Immigrants -- Fiction
Irish
Irish -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
Judges' spouses
Judges' spouses -- Fiction
Literature
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Nineteen seventies
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
Petit, Philippe
Petit, Philippe, -- 1949- -- Fiction
Teenage mothers
Teenage mothers -- Fiction
Tightrope walking
Tightrope walking -- Fiction
Fiction
Grief
Grief -- Fiction
Immigrants
Immigrants -- Fiction
Irish
Irish -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
Judges' spouses
Judges' spouses -- Fiction
Literature
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Nineteen seventies
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
Petit, Philippe
Petit, Philippe, -- 1949- -- Fiction
Teenage mothers
Teenage mothers -- Fiction
Tightrope walking
Tightrope walking -- Fiction
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9781400063734
9781588368737
9781588368737
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Judges' spouses -- Fiction
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Judges' spouses
Literature
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Teenage mothers
Tightrope walking
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Immigrants
Irish
Judges' spouses
Literature
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Petit, Philippe
Teenage mothers
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