Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann is a 349-page hardcover published in 2009 by Random House New York. The dust jacket has light shelf wear.  Inside, there is bumping along the spine and upper edge.  The pages are clean, crisp and pristine with straight and tight binding.  The condition is very good. 

Book Summary

In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers.  It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground.  In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.

Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet:  a dazzling rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.

Corrigan, 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 gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who dies 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.  Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth.

Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann's powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city's people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the "artistic crime of the century."