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"Let the Great World Spin "

June 11, 2012

An Edgy Trip to 1970s New York City: Colum McCann’s Let The Great World Spin

Though he grew up in Ireland, McCann somehow pulls off an authentic native's story of New York City in 1974, when hookers and heroin and breakdancers and arson defined the Bronx, and the Vietnam War and disillusionment hung like a cloud over everything.