| Description |
349 pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Random House reader's circle |
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Reader's circle (Random House (Firm))
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Book One -- All Respects to Heaven, I Like It Here -- Miro, Miro, on the Wall -- A Fear of Love -- Let the Great World Spin Forever Down -- Book Two -- Tag -- Etherwest -- This is the House That Horse Built -- The Ringing Grooves of Change -- Book Three -- Part of the Parts -- Centavos -- All Hail and Hallelujah -- Book Four -- Roaring Seaward, and I Go |
| Summary |
A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of 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 gathers 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. Weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann's allegory comes alive in the voices of the city's people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the "artistic crime of the century"--a mysterious tightrope walker dancing between the Twin Towers.--From publisher's description |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2009 |
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Winner of the National Book Award |
| Subject |
Petit, Philippe, 1949- -- Fiction.
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Grief -- Fiction.
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Immigrants -- Fiction.
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Irish -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
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Irish -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Judges' spouses -- Fiction.
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Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
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Psychological fiction, American.
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Teenage mothers -- Fiction.
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Tightrope walking -- Fiction.
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Teenage mothers -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108377
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116328 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116335
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| Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| LC no. |
2008046963 |
| ISBN |
1408801183 (paperback) |
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9781408801185 (paperback) |
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