Let the great world spin : a novel / Colum McCann.
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TextPublication details: New York : Random House, [2009]Edition: 1st edDescription: 349 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9781400063734Subject(s): Petit, Philippe, 1949- -- Fiction | Immigrants -- Fiction | Irish -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction | Judges' spouses -- Fiction | Grief -- Fiction | Teenage mothers -- Fiction | Tightrope walking -- Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction | Nineteen seventies -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. DDC classification: 823/.914 | [Fic] LOC classification: PR6063.C335 | L47 2009Summary: Philippe Petit's illicit 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Center towers is the touchstone for stories of the people down below, including an Irish monk living in the Bronx projects, a Park Avenue mother in mourning for her son who died in Vietnam, and a heroin-addicted hooker.
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Philippe Petit's illicit 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Center towers is the touchstone for stories of the people down below, including an Irish monk living in the Bronx projects, a Park Avenue mother in mourning for her son who died in Vietnam, and a heroin-addicted hooker.
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