| Authors: |
McCann, Colum, 1965-
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Irish fiction -- New York (State) -- New York.
Judges' spouses -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Teenage mothers -- Fiction.
Tightrope walking -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
Petit, Philippe,1949- -- Fiction.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Random House, 2010, c2009. |
| Description: |
375 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780812973990 0812973992 |
| Notes: |
"A reader's guide" -- p. [355]-375. |
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National Book Award, 2009. |
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| Tags |
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| Rating: |
5 out of 5: They loved it |
| Community reviews |
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Intertwined by L_Walker_M |
| I will admit there were some stories (each chapter of the book was an individual person's story, and they were all connected without knowing about each other) that I just did not understand their relevance to the overarching snapshot of NY, but enjoyed the book nonetheless. The author has a good writing style, and you get just a long enough story that pushes your patience (getting almost to the "when will it be over" question), but never actually causes it to be lost. I can see why it won an award, and individuals should read it just for the way the characters are interlaced in a seemingly effortless manner. |
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| 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. |