![]() ![]() ![]() Weaving together themes of love, loss, belonging, duty and human striving, Let the Great World Spin celebrates the effervescent spirit of an age and the small beauties of everyday life. ![]() Set against a time of sweeping political and social change, from the backlash against the Vietnam War and the lingering spectre of the oil crisis to the beginnings of the Internet - a time that hauntingly mirrors the present time - these disparate lives will collide in the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, and be transformed for ever. One hundred and ten stories below him, the lives of eight strangers spin towards each other Corrigan, a radical, passionate Irish monk working in the Bronx with a clutch of prostitutes Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son in Vietnam her husband Solomon, a cynical judge turning over petty criminals in a downtown court Lara, a young artist struggling with a spiralling drug addiction and a doomed marriage Fernando, a thirteen-year-old photographer chasing underground graffiti Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship Tillie, a courageous hooker who used to dream of a better life and Jazzlyn, her beautiful, reckless daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the high-rises of New York. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. ![]()
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