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Let the Great World Spin (2009)

av Colum McCann

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New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. A 38-year-old grandmother turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. The city's people are unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the "artistic crime of the century"--a mysterious tightrope walker dancing between the Twin Towers.--From publisher description.… (mer)
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A great big complex novel packed into under 400 pages. Many of the characters do not have the best sort of life. The book won awards, and for good reasons. ( )
  mykl-s | Aug 13, 2023 |
Amo New York, per certi versi penso sia quasi un'ossessione. Da quando ci sono stata l'anno scorso è come se ci avessi lasciato un pezzo di me. Ogni volta che ne vedo uno scorcio in un film, un telefilm, mi sento il cuore allargarsi, mi viene quasi un groppo in gola, quando leggo una storia che si svolge fra le sue strade mi pare di vedermele scorrere davanti. In questo libro, più un susseguirsi di racconti che un romanzo, non ci sono descrizioni "esplicite" di New York, eppure ogni singola riga me l'ha fatta visualizzare. Leggendo questo libro, ho capito cosa me la fa amare tanto; il fatto che mi abbia fatta sentire accolta, a casa, l'ho sentita mia. I personaggi di questi racconti non sono tutti newyorkesi doc, eppure la città gli appartiene. Tant'è vero che la storia inizia in Irlanda, con i fratelli Corrigan e mi ha ricordato un po' il gusto di Un albero cresce a Brooklyn; quando ho finito quella parte ho pensato, ma come potrà riempire ancora meglio le pagine l'autore, se abbandona questo filo? Beh ci è riuscito, con le sue donne del bronx, con le madri disperate, col francese ballerino, con gli artisti in preda ai sensi di colpa, con gli hacker della silicon valley che chiamano i telefoni pubblici per farsi raccontare cosa sta succedendo in cima alle due torri, se c'è davvero quell'uomo che cammina sul filo. Così un giorno qualunque, con quell'uomo che danza sul filo, si apre uno scorcio sull'umanità che danza sulla terra. Non capita spesso di leggere libri così, non capita spesso, arrivati all'ultima riga, di desiderare che ce ne siano ancora.... ma non è tutto merito mio, grazie a Paolo Cognetti che me l'ha fatto scoprire ( )
  Mav_Danto | Jul 28, 2023 |
I was totally delighted by the diverse cast of characters featured in this novel. It really displayed the melting pot that is New York. In this sense, the novel serves as an excellent example of the six degrees of separation theory. Despite vast differences in age,wealth,race, or creed the characters are all connected. And to make it even more interesting, they are often unaware of these connections. ( )
  kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |
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  markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |
Al amanecer de una mañana de finales de verano, los habitantes de la parte baja de Manhattan miraban absortos hacia lo alto de las Torres Gemelas. Estamos en agosto de 1974 y una minúscula y enigmática figura camina en inverosímil equilibrio sobre un cable entre ambos edificios.
Y abajo, en la bulliciosa y violenta Nueva York de la década de los setenta, los destinos de varios personajes se cruzarán y sus vidas aparentemente ordinarias cambiarán para siempre: un sacerdote irlandés que lucha contra sus demonios y vive entre prostitutas en pleno Bronx , un grupo de madres que se reúnen para llorar a sus hijos muertos en Vietnam, una artista que será testigo de un accidente que la marcará para siempre, una joven abuela que ayuda a su hija adolescente mientras trata de demostrarse a sí misma que su vida tiene sentido…
Obra ganadora del National Book Award
  Natt90 | Mar 24, 2023 |
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This is an exceptional performance by a writer whose originality and profound humanity is evident throughout this highly original and wondrous novel.
 
The lousy feeling that you’ve been duped into buying a bogus product increases as you read Let the Great World Spin, and like all chintzy things manufactured for tourists, the book can’t withstand the slightest amount of tensile pressure. Apply a little scrutiny to the artistic decisions being made, and worse and worse details appear, from the awful prose, which ceaselessly pitches and yaws between staccato bursts of words and breathless run-on sentences, to the gaudy, exhibitionist displays of grief. But tackiest of all is the way that McCann deals with his African-American characters, who come off as nothing more than anthropological specimens.
 
It is a mark of the novel’s soaring and largely fulfilled ambition that McCann just keeps rolling out new people, deftly linking each to the next, as his story moves toward its surprising and deeply affecting conclusion.
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Here and elsewhere, “Let the Great World Spin” can feel like a precursor to another novel of colliding cultures: “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” Tom Wolfe’s classic portrait of New York in the 1980s. But McCann’s effort is less disciplined, more earnest, looser, rougher, more flawed but also more soulful — in other words, more like the city itself.
 
Gritty yet hopeful... in terms of sheer lyricism, McCann pulls out all the stops. My review copy was an absolute mess of Post-its and marked passages by the time I was halfway through.
 
A book so humane in its understanding of original sin that it winds up bestowing what might be called original absolution... a pre-9/11 novel that delivers the sense that so many of the 9/11 novels have missed.
tillagd av jjlong | ändraEsquire, Tom Junod (Jul 8, 2009)
 

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New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. A 38-year-old grandmother turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. The city's people are unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the "artistic crime of the century"--a mysterious tightrope walker dancing between the Twin Towers.--From publisher description.

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