Let The Great World Spin

<p><b>WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD</b><br><b>Winner of the Dublin Impac International Prize<br>Winner of Best Foreign Novel Award Weshanhu Award<br>Winner of the Grinzane Award<br>Winner of the Prix Deauville<br>Winner of the Ambassador Book Award<br>Winner of the Medici Book Club Prize<br>Winner of the Aspen Literary Prize<br><br></b><b>‘A wow of a novel – rich, humane, brilliantly written and as deep as it is wide’ <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b><i>____________________________________<br></i> </b><br><br>New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara, a drug-addled young artist; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; and Jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York.<br><br> In the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for ever.<br><br> <b>‘A glorious, thumping tale of intersecting lives, told in a language that all but sings’ Kamila Shamsie</b><br><br><b>‘One of the most electric, profound novels I have read in years ... an emotional tour de force’ <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br> <b>‘McCann has reinvented the city of New York in all its breathing, fighting, whining, joyous clamour’ Peter Carey, <i>Observer</i></b></p>