It's a dizzying literary performance that deserves high points for technique even if the point of the whole show is a little opaque.įreedom as well as war and peace are the big themes running throughout the other two history-based ocean crossings in this novel: Frederick Douglass visited Ireland in 1845 - during the Great Famine - on a lecture tour to promote his autobiography and Sen. TransAtlantic is also heady and historical, and in the cheeky spirit of Let the Great World Spin, combines an air show with a juggling act: McCann compresses three crisscrossing narratives into this novel, which spans more than a century. 11 novel, and yet almost everyone rightly read it as one, since McCann's tale commemorated the towers at the literal zenith of their history. Strictly speaking, Let the Great World Spin was not a Sept. In his 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin, McCann swooped readers up into the air with the French aerialist Philippe Petit, who staged an illegal high-wire stunt walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. Here we go into the wild blue yonder again with Colum McCann. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title TransAtlantic Author Colum McCann
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