Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Apeirogon, TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as three critically acclaimed story collections and the nonfiction books Letters to a Young Writer and American Mother. A regular contributor to The New York Times, he lives with his family in New York City. He is the cofounder of the global non-profit organization Narrative 4, which operates in 42 countries and uses storytelling to propel community action and change.
“This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it’s a
damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write
one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. There’s so much
passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the Great
World Spin that you’ll find yourself giddy, dizzy,
overwhelmed.”—Dave Eggers
“In his own gritty and lyrical voice, Colum McCann has lifted up a
handful of souls to the light in this big-hearted, adroit and
probing novel, and brought forth a spectrum of the painful, the
beautiful and the unexpected.”—Amy Bloom
“Every character grabs you by the throat and makes you care.
McCann’s dazzling polyphony walks the high wire and succeeds
triumphantly.”—Emma Donoghue, author of Room
“What a book! Complex and captivating . . . a very sensual
novel.”—John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Now I worry about Colum McCann. What is he going to do after this
blockbuster groundbreaking heartbreaking symphony of a novel? No
novelist writing of New York has climbed higher, dived
deeper.”—Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes
“With Philippe Petit’s breathless 1974 tightrope walk between the
uncompleted WTC towers at its axis, Colum McCann offers us a
lyrical cycloramic high-low portrait of New York City in its
days of burning; Park Avenue matrons, Bronx junkies, Center Street
judges, downtown artists and their uptown subway-tagging brethren,
street priests, weary cops, wearier hookers, grieving mothers of an
Asian war freshly put to bed; a masterful chorus of voices all
obliviously connected by the most ephemeral vision; a pin-dot of a
man walking on air 110 stories above their heads.”—Richard Price,
author of Lush Life
“Stunning . . . [an] elegiac glimpse of hope . . . It’s a novel
rooted firmly in time and place. It vividly captures New York at
its worst and best. But it transcends all that. In the end, it’s a
novel about families—the ones we’re born into and the ones we make
for ourselves.”—USA Today
“The first great 9/11 novel . . . It is a pre-9/11 novel that
delivers the sense that so many of the 9/11 novels have missed: We
are all dancing on the wire of history, and even on solid ground we
breathe the thinnest of air.”—Esquire
“Mesmerizing . . . a Joycean look at the lives of New Yorkers
changed by a single act on a single day . . . Colum McCann’s
marvelously rich novel . . . weaves a portrait of a city and a
moment, dizzyingly satisfying to read and difficult to put
down.”—The Seattle Times
“Vibrantly whole . . . With a series of spare, gorgeously wrought
vignettes, Colum McCann brings 1970s New York to life. . . . And as
always, McCann’s heart-stoppingly simple descriptions
wow.”—Entertainment Weekly
“An act of pure bravado, dizzying proof that to keep your balance
you need to know how to fall.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“The Great New York Novel. With echoes of Wolfe, Doctorow, and
DeLillo, Colum McCann’s mesmerizing Let the Great World Spin is a
prophetic portrait of New York City in the summer of 1974. . . . A
fine introduction to a major talent. It is one of the year’s best
novels.”—Taylor Antrim, The Daily Beast
“[McCann] both resurrects and redeems the horrors of Sept. 11,
creating a metaphorical landscape of human endurance in the face of
unspeakable tragedy. . . . This is McCann’s gift, finding
grace in grief and magic in the mundane.”—San Francisco
Chronicle
“A shimmering, shattering novel. In McCann’s wise and elegiac novel
of origins and consequences, each of his finely drawn, unexpectedly
connected characters balances above an abyss, evincing great
courage with every step.”—Booklist (starred review)
“If William Butler Yeats and Allen Ginsberg had written a novel
together, it would be this sad, this deep, this urban, this manic
and this highly charged. . . . McCann’s power—his language, his
human understanding, his vision—holds us in an embrace as
encompassing as the great world itself.”—The Buffalo News
“Beautiful, heady . . . As worn down as McCann’s characters
are, they each struggle heroically against life’s downward pull,
and that’s what makes the novel so powerfully uplifting.”—Richmond
Times-Dispatch
“Seductive [with a] propulsive pace . . . This is a New York
teeming with leathery men and vicious beauties. The city itself is
a stalled machine. People don’t arrive here; they crawl into it.
McCann’s style is lyrical and sharp, as he expertly weaves together
the lives of a handful of seemingly disparate characters.”—The
Oregonian
“Sprawling, lyrical . . . McCann [is a] novelist you should know a
lot more about.”—New York
"This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it's a
damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write
one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. There's so much
passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the
Great World Spin that you'll find yourself giddy, dizzy,
overwhelmed."-Dave Eggers
"In his own gritty and lyrical voice, Colum McCann has lifted up a
handful of souls to the light in this big-hearted, adroit and
probing novel, and brought forth a spectrum of the painful, the
beautiful and the unexpected."-Amy Bloom
"Every character grabs you by the throat and makes you care.
McCann's dazzling polyphony walks the high wire and succeeds
triumphantly."-Emma Donoghue, author of Room
"What a book! Complex and captivating . . . a very sensual
novel."-John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped
Pajamas
"Now I worry about Colum McCann. What is he going to do after this
blockbuster groundbreaking heartbreaking symphony of a novel? No
novelist writing of New York has climbed higher, dived
deeper."-Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes
"With Philippe Petit's breathless 1974 tightrope walk between the
uncompleted WTC towers at its axis, Colum McCann offers us a
lyrical cycloramic high-low portrait of New York City in its days
of burning; Park Avenue matrons, Bronx junkies, Center Street
judges, downtown artists and their uptown subway-tagging brethren,
street priests, weary cops, wearier hookers, grieving mothers of an
Asian war freshly put to bed; a masterful chorus of voices all
obliviously connected by the most ephemeral vision; a pin-dot of a
man walking on air 110 stories above their heads."-Richard
Price, author of Lush Life
"Stunning . . . [an] elegiac glimpse of hope . . . It's a
novel rooted firmly in time and place. It vividly captures New York
at its worst and best. But it transcends all that. In the end, it's
a novel about families-the ones we're born into and the ones we
make for ourselves."-USA Today
"The first great 9/11 novel . . . It is a pre-9/11 novel that
delivers the sense that so many of the 9/11 novels have missed: We
are all dancing on the wire of history, and even on solid ground we
breathe the thinnest of air."-Esquire
"Mesmerizing . . . a Joycean look at the lives of New
Yorkers changed by a single act on a single day . . . Colum
McCann's marvelously rich novel . . . weaves a portrait of a city
and a moment, dizzyingly satisfying to read and difficult to put
down."-The Seattle Times
"Vibrantly whole . . . With a series of spare, gorgeously wrought
vignettes, Colum McCann brings 1970s New York to life. . . . And as
always, McCann's heart-stoppingly simple descriptions
wow."-Entertainment Weekly
"An act of pure bravado, dizzying proof that to keep your
balance you need to know how to fall."-O: The Oprah Magazine
"The Great New York Novel. With echoes of Wolfe, Doctorow, and
DeLillo, Colum McCann's mesmerizing Let the Great World Spin is a
prophetic portrait of New York City in the summer of 1974. . . . A
fine introduction to a major talent. It is one of the year's best
novels."-Taylor Antrim, The Daily Beast
"[McCann] both resurrects and redeems the horrors of Sept. 11,
creating a metaphorical landscape of human endurance in the face of
unspeakable tragedy. . . . This is McCann's gift, finding grace in
grief and magic in the mundane."-San Francisco Chronicle
"A shimmering, shattering novel. In McCann's wise and elegiac novel
of origins and consequences, each of his finely drawn, unexpectedly
connected characters balances above an abyss, evincing great
courage with every step."-Booklist (starred
review)
"If William Butler Yeats and Allen Ginsberg had written a novel
together, it would be this sad, this deep, this urban, this manic
and this highly charged. . . . McCann's power-his language, his
human understanding, his vision-holds us in an embrace as
encompassing as the great world itself."-The Buffalo News
"Beautiful, heady . . . As worn down as McCann's characters are,
they each struggle heroically against life's downward pull, and
that's what makes the novel so powerfully
uplifting."-Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Seductive [with a] propulsive pace . . . This is a New York
teeming with leathery men and vicious beauties. The city itself is
a stalled machine. People don't arrive here; they crawl into it.
McCann's style is lyrical and sharp, as he expertly weaves together
the lives of a handful of seemingly disparate
characters."-The Oregonian
"Sprawling, lyrical . . . McCann [is a] novelist you should know a
lot more about."-New
York
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