Let the Great World Spin

科伦·麦凯恩，1965年2月生于爱尔兰都柏林，后移居美国。他的主要作品有《卓丽》《舞者》《这个国家的一切都必须》《光明那面》《歌犬》和《在斯卢-布莱克河上捕鱼》等。《转吧，这伟大的世界》获2009年度美国国家图书奖。

出版者:Random House Trade Paperbacks

作者:Colum McCann

页数:400

出版时间:2009-12-2

价格:USD 15.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780812973990

图书标签:Novel

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. "From the Hardcover edition."

读后感

—— 战争是关于虚荣心的，他说。战争属于老人，老得不忍去照镜子、所以让年轻人去送死的人。战争是虚荣的聚会。他们希望简化一切：恨你的仇敌，别去对他有任何了解。他声称，战争是最不符合美国精神的，战争背后没有理想主义，只有失败。 —— 所有这些关于自由的大话。全是...  

题目是从别人那里借来的，希望题目的主人不会介意。 旋转的只能是漩涡。要是蓝熊没有被侏儒海盗救起来，他会在马尔姆激流的尽头闻到根氟的味道，然后掉到另一个空间里么？如果那位渔夫没有机智地抓住水桶浮到海面，他会在莫斯肯漩涡里发现另一个世界么？时间是个漩涡的隧洞，...  

《转吧，这伟大的世界》，作者科伦·麦凯恩，即将由人民文学出版社出版 2010年6月底，我刚到爱尔兰的时候，在机场叫了辆出租车。司机是一位自称六十一岁的都柏林人，留着小胡子，模样让人想起演员、007 的扮演者之一肖恩·康纳利。路上我们说起了爱尔兰面临的经济萧条。我问他...  

我真高兴我看了这本书。有关于生活和信仰。 很难说主线是那个无名神秘的走钢丝者还是从来没有出现过的科里根，故事是围绕那个特定时代展开。 看完第一部分的时候，我在想，为什么国内就不能产生这样的作品。作者用一种包容的、理解的、富有浪漫主义情怀的态度来诠释“美国精...  

题目是从别人那里借来的，希望题目的主人不会介意。 旋转的只能是漩涡。要是蓝熊没有被侏儒海盗救起来，他会在马尔姆激流的尽头闻到根氟的味道，然后掉到另一个空间里么？如果那位渔夫没有机智地抓住水桶浮到海面，他会在莫斯肯漩涡里发现另一个世界么？时间是个漩涡的隧洞，...