MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02060cam a2200361 a 4500
001 2008046963
003 DLC
005 20090807114804.0
008 081028s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2008046963
020 $a9781400063734 (acid-free paper)
020 $a1400063736 (acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn268957352
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dYDXCP$dBTCTA$dABG$dIK2$dBUR$dCDX$dBWX$dDLC
043 $an-us-ny
050 00 $aPR6063.C335$bL47 2009
082 00 $a823/.914$222
100 1 $aMcCann, Colum,$d1965-
245 10 $aLet the great world spin :$ba novel /$cColum McCann.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$cc2009.
300 $a349 p. ;$c25 cm.
520 $aA 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.
650 0 $aImmigrants$vFiction.
650 0 $aIrish$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vFiction.
650 0 $aJudges' spouses$vFiction.
650 0 $aGrief$vFiction.
650 0 $aTeenage mothers$vFiction.
600 10 $aPetit, Philippe,$d1949-$vFiction.
650 0 $aTightrope walking$vFiction.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vFiction.
650 0 $aNineteen seventies$vFiction.
655 0 $aPsychological fiction.