LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann

Synopsis

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 intric

ate portrait of a city and its people.


My view
In August of 1974 Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers of New-York. This is a true fact.
Borrowing from this amazing feat, author Colum McCann spins a novel I absolutely loved. It is a story of New-York and it's people. The central characters of this story stand unfamiliar to one other within the crowd watching Philippe Petit walk his tightrope. As the novel advances a delightful pattern emerges, we see how those strangers connected to each other. I like this premise.
It is a must read.
I am looking to read "DANCERS" by Colum McCann, a novel who takes from Russian dancer Rudolph Nureyev. ( when I was 17 a friend invited me to have lunch with this magnficent dancer, this was before he defected from Russia, Nureyev's friends were surrounded by somber company at the table...KGB. This is a true memory of my life, it took place in Monte-Carlo in 1963-64 he was dancing as a guest for the Monte-Carlo Ballet and defected. Monte-Carlo, a country where this encounter was not so extraordinary, still I cherish the memory)