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It's August of 1974, a summer "hot and serious and full of death and betrayal," with Watergate and the Vietnam War making the world feel precarious. A stunned hush pauses the cacophonous universe of New York City as a man on a cable walks (repeatedly) between World Trade Center towers. This extraordinary, real-life feat by French funambulist Philippe Petit becomes the touchstone for stories that briefly submerge you in ten varied and intense lives--a street priest, heroin-addicted hookers, mothers mourning sons lost in war, young artists, a Park Avenue judge. All their lives are ordinary and unforgettable, overlapping at the edges, occasionally converging. And when they coalesce in the final pages, the moment hums with such grace that its memory might tighten your throat weeks later
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Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2009
- Reliure
- (souple),
- État du livre
- Bon
- Prix
- 3,19 €
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- Titre
- Let the Great World Spin
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Colum McCann
- Publié
- 2009
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0812973992
- ISBN13
- 9780812973990
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Famille, Littérature contemporaine, États-Unis, Mort, New York, Irlande, Destin, Littérature irlandaise, Frères, Richesse, Prostitution, Vietnam, Guerre de Sécession (1861-1865), Dublin
- Première publication
- 2009
- Titre original
- Let the Great World Spin
- Évaluation
- 4 sur 5
- Description
- It's August of 1974, a summer "hot and serious and full of death and betrayal," with Watergate and the Vietnam War making the world feel precarious. A stunned hush pauses the cacophonous universe of New York City as a man on a cable walks (repeatedly) between World Trade Center towers. This extraordinary, real-life feat by French funambulist Philippe Petit becomes the touchstone for stories that briefly submerge you in ten varied and intense lives--a street priest, heroin-addicted hookers, mothers mourning sons lost in war, young artists, a Park Avenue judge. All their lives are ordinary and unforgettable, overlapping at the edges, occasionally converging. And when they coalesce in the final pages, the moment hums with such grace that its memory might tighten your throat weeks later