Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann captures the promise, mystery, and pain of life in New York City in the 1970s, as a man dances on a tightrope between the Twin Towers.
What Tommy Orange Says: “I first read this back in 2007. Just two years after becoming a reader and writer for the first time. I didn’t know when I was reading it how important the structure would become to me, and in thinking of the novel I would start writing in 2011.”
What They Say: “A blockbuster, groundbreaking, heartbreaking, symphony of a novel [...] No novelist writing of New York has climbed higher, dived deeper” – Frank McCourt
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