具體描述
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 McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.
Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s 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, McCann’s powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s 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.
作者簡介
科倫·麥凱恩，1965年2月生於愛爾蘭都柏林，後移居美國。他的主要作品有《卓麗》《舞者》《這個國傢的一切都必須》《光明那麵》《歌犬》和《在斯盧-布萊剋河上捕魚》等。《轉吧，這偉大的世界》獲2009年度美國國傢圖書奬。
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Let the great world spin To my surprise,a novel can be written like this.I can’t make it clear that what the novel tells us at first.The author divide his novel into several parts and each part contains several passages.Each passage tells us a story and ...
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評分我真高興我看瞭這本書。有關於生活和信仰。 很難說主綫是那個無名神秘的走鋼絲者還是從來沒有齣現過的科裏根，故事是圍繞那個特定時代展開。 看完第一部分的時候，我在想，為什麼國內就不能産生這樣的作品。作者用一種包容的、理解的、富有浪漫主義情懷的態度來詮釋“美國精...
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