Let the Great World Spin Summary
Colum McCann

Let the Great World Spin Overview

Let the Great World Spin is a novel by Irish-American bestselling author Colum McCann. The narrative follows the lives of several different characters who have witnessed or heard about one event: a tightrope walker walking between the World Trade Center buildings in August of 1974. Let the Great World Spin won the 2009 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.