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A carregar... Let the Great World Spin: A Novel (original 2009; edição 2009)por Colum McCann (Autor)
Informação Sobre a ObraLet the Great World Spin por Colum McCann (2009)
  
Top Five Books of 2013 (220) Top Five Books of 2016 (126) » 14 mais Favourite Books (769) Five star books (292) Top Five Books of 2017 (623) Books Read in 2014 (412) EU Fiction: 1950-2022 (124) Books Read in 2016 (3,020) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |   ) MylesKesten | Jan 23, 2024 | ) jemisonreads | Jan 22, 2024 | ) ellink | Jan 22, 2024 | The story is narrated by, I think, something like ten different characters. There is a core connected group made up of two Irish brothers, a pair of prostitutes, two ladies who lost sons in Vietnam, a nurse, an artist/former junkie, and, of course, the tightrope walker whose dramatic stroll between the Twin Towers sort of anchors this book to one day in New York City in 1974. So, the story is all over the place, but that's probably the point. In a way, this is more like a group of connected short stories than a traditional novel. The epigraph McCann chose illustrates this: "All of the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is." And so some of the characters are people we glimpse but never really know--a hacker who falls in love with a librarian over the phone, a graffiti photographer, a sister in the military. At the same time, we maybe know "what the world is" a little better by the end of this book because we have seen through the eyes of so many. In the Afterword, McCann says that this book is his reaction to 9/11, and yet the NYC-in-the-1970s setting seemed to be full of everyday tragedies that stand in stark contrast to the huge tragedy of 9/11. Drugs, poverty, and violence are mundane and everywhere, as evidenced in the daily grind of the projects, arraignment court, a walk to Harlem. But the book echoes 9/11 in the act of the tightrope walker, how he makes the whole city stop and pay attention and come together to witness something shocking. So, beautiful job, Mr. McCann. Deserving of the National Book Award. ( ) LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
 This is an exceptional performance by a writer whose originality and profound humanity is evident throughout this highly original and wondrous novel.  The lousy feeling that you’ve been duped into buying a bogus product increases as you read Let the Great World Spin, and like all chintzy things manufactured for tourists, the book can’t withstand the slightest amount of tensile pressure. Apply a little scrutiny to the artistic decisions being made, and worse and worse details appear, from the awful prose, which ceaselessly pitches and yaws between staccato bursts of words and breathless run-on sentences, to the gaudy, exhibitionist displays of grief. But tackiest of all is the way that McCann deals with his African-American characters, who come off as nothing more than anthropological specimens. It is a mark of the novel’s soaring and largely fulfilled ambition that McCann just keeps rolling out new people, deftly linking each to the next, as his story moves toward its surprising and deeply affecting conclusion. ... Here and elsewhere, “Let the Great World Spin” can feel like a precursor to another novel of colliding cultures: “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” Tom Wolfe’s classic portrait of New York in the 1980s. But McCann’s effort is less disciplined, more earnest, looser, rougher, more flawed but also more soulful — in other words, more like the city itself. Gritty yet hopeful... in terms of sheer lyricism, McCann pulls out all the stops. My review copy was an absolute mess of Post-its and marked passages by the time I was halfway through. A book so humane in its understanding of original sin that it winds up bestowing what might be called original absolution... a pre-9/11 novel that delivers the sense that so many of the 9/11 novels have missed. PrémiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML:NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Colum McCanns beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petits daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCanns stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed authors most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. Corrigan, 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. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCanns powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the citys people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the artistic crime of the century. A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a fiercely original talent (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Colum McCanns TransAtlantic. This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and its a damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. Theres so much passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the Great World Spin that youll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed.Dave Eggers Stunning . . . [an] elegiac glimpse of hope . . . Its a novel rooted firmly in time and place. It vividly captures New York at its worst and best. But it transcends all that. In the end, its a novel about familiesthe ones were born into and the ones we make for ourselves.USA Today. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers AlumColum McCann's book Let the Great World Spin was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  
Autor LibraryThingColum McCann é um Autor LibraryThing, um autor que lista a sua biblioteca pessoal no LibraryThing. Conversa de AutorColum McCann conversou com membros do LibraryThing de Mar 1, 2010 a Mar 14, 2010. Leia a conversa. Current DiscussionsNenhum(a)Capas populares
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