sociotom 's review for:

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

4.0

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I read this book on the recommendation of my girlfriend, and I can say I completely trust her taste in literature now. Let the Great World Spin is a fantastic book, by turns beautiful and tragic. The different characters and disparate lives all affect one another in a myriad of seemingly random ways, both large and small, eventually coming together in a way that showcases an excellent command of storytelling. And, above it all - above the ghettos and high rise apartments and teenagers on the forefront of a technical revolution and mothers dealing with the losses Vietnam forced on them - balances one man holding a pole, dancing on a wire between the not-quite-finished Twin Towers.

Colum McCann wrote a fantastic story, and you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not reading it. It's that simple.