{"title":"Colum McCann","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"deixe-o-grande-mundo-girar","title":"Let the big world spin","description":"\"Colum McCann is Ireland's most promising writer.\" - The New York Times On the morning of August 7, 1974, a French acrobat brought Manhattan to a standstill. For 45 minutes, Philippe Petit defied death by crossing a cable between the twin towers of the newly opened World Trade Center. His steps, poetry in motion, blended running, dance, and theater. A quarter-mile below, spectators of various classes, genders, and races admired the feat. Their voices, lives, and experiences make up a complex mosaic of the city and its people, masterfully stitched together by Colum McCann. LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN, considered one of the most ambitious novels of the decade in the United States and winner of the National Book Award, is also a fascinating and magnificent vision of the suffering, charm, mystery, and promise of New York in the 1970s. McCann's work here isn't about the crossing itself, but about what it represented for those who watched Petit defy the space. The acrobat is like the hub of a wheel, and the spokes that emerge from it are the stories of each narrator. Fragments of each character's life, all charged with a strong tragic element. And the journey brings hope to each one's life. Corrigan, a young radical Irish monk, struggles with his own demons while living among prostitutes in the middle of a burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, and discover how far they are separated even in their grief. A young artist involved in drugs flees after a car crash and sees her own life turn upside down. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother who prostitutes herself with her teenage daughter, tries unsuccessfully to care for her family and prove her own worth. Elegantly interweaving these and other seemingly disparate situations, McCann's powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city's people, unexpectedly united by hope, beauty, and the \"artistic crime of the century.\" The author does this impeccably. Each narrator has a distinct, unique, and robust voice. A majestic and radical social novel, LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, promise, and innocence. Perfectly executed, psychologically acute, it's unquestionably a great novel.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159394500860,"sku":"9788501089960","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/07718c55de405b8be762896fb753b097.jpg?v=1778309903"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/colum-mccann.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}