Let the great world spin

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Sinopse

New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. One hundred and ten stories below him, the lives of eight strangers spin towards each other Corrigan, a radical, passionate Irish monk working in the Bronx with a clutch of prostitutes; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son in Vietnam; her husband Solomon, a cynical judge turning over petty criminals in a downtown court; Lara, a young artist struggling with a spiralling drug addiction and a doomed marriage; Fernando, a thirteen-year-old photographer chasing underground graffiti; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a courageous hooker who used to dream of a better life; and Jazzlyn, her beautiful, reckless daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the high rises of New York. Set against a time of sweeping political and social change, from the backlash to the Vietnam War and the lingering sceptre of the oil crisis to the beginnings of the Internet - a time that hauntingly mirrors the present time - these disparate lives will collide in the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, and be transformed for ever. Weaving together themes of love, loss, belonging, duty and human striving, Let the Great World Spin celebrates the effervescent spirit of an age and the small beauties of everyday life. At once intimate and magnificent, elegant and astonishing, it is a lyrical masterpiece from a storyteller who continues to use the wide world as his canvas.

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Autor: Colum Mccann

Autor

COLUM MCCANN

Autor de dois livros de contos e seis romances, como Zoli, Dancer e This side of brightness, Colum McCann (1965, Dublin, Irlanda) foi traduzido para mais de 30 línguas e teve seus textos publicados em revistas como New Yorker, New York Times Magazine e Paris Review. Começou a carreira como jornalista do Irish Press e já contribuiu com The Guardian, The Independent, La Republicca, Paris Match e The New York Times, entre outros. Seu último trabalho, Let the great world spin, lhe rendeu, em 2009, o National Book Award e foi considerado pela revista Esquire “o primeiro grande romance sobre 11 de setembro”. O livro parte da famosa travessia do equilibrista francês Philippe Petit entre as torres do World Trade Center de Nova York, em 1974, para narrar histórias fictícias de anônimos que o observavam no momento.

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