Parts of this book I loved, and parts I just wanted to get through... but I suspect my troubles with it were due to the uneven (and sluggish) performances in the audiobook. I found myself regretting choosing Audible for this one; I think this is just one that was meant to be read. By: I loved the rich writing that made me stop occasionally to savor a turn of phrase. Praise for Let the Great World Spin “This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it’s a damned lot of fun to read, too. Get this from a library! 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. Kevin Free, By: 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. In Great Britain he has enjoyed an extensive career in both television and repertory theater and toured nationally and internationally with the English Shakespeare Company. Sed aliquam, urna ut sollicitudin molestie, lacus justo aliquam mauris, interdum aliquam sapien nisi cursus mauris. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s Conditions of Use. . After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. ". laying on a bed, looking out a window, gazing, just sitting quietly with another. Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the … All Rights Reserved. Moving narrative from a variety of perspectives. Yareli Arizmendi, By: © Copyright 2011 - 2020 RB Audiobooks USA LLC. How the lives of all the very different characters cross paths. Praise for Let the Great World Spin Cancel anytime. Everyone else was great, and it was fun finding out how many of the characters finally related in some way to another character. . In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. Nick Caistor, Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2015. There’s so much passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the Great World Spin that you’ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed.”—Dave Eggers It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. By: By: Please try again. Please type in your email address in order to receive an email with instructions on how to reset your password. Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? In America he has appeared on Broadway in The Weir and on television in New York Undercover and Law & Order. There must be a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Is she really changing? The younger brother's unswerving compassion, throughout. Copyright © 2001-2020 OCLC.