TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCann,Colum
TI  - Let the great world spin: a novel 
SN  - 9781400063734 (acidfree paper)
AV  - PR6063.C335 L47 2009
U1  - 823/.914 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Petit, Philippe,
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Irish
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Judges' spouses
KW  - Grief
KW  - Teenage mothers
KW  - Tightrope walking
KW  - Nineteen seventies
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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
ER  -