![]() ![]() When he confronts him about this, Corrigan reveals that he is not using drugs but is in reality suffering from TTP. After Ciaran notices bruises on the inside of Corrigan's arm, he begins to suspect that he is using drugs. Ciaran meets two of the prostitutes, Tillie and her daughter Jazzlyn, who has two young children of her own. ![]() Corrigan works at a nursing home and has befriended several of the prostitutes working around his apartment, leaving his door unlocked so they can use his bathroom despite the danger this frequently puts him in. In 1974, an Irishman named Ciaran travels to New York City to see his younger brother, Corrigan, a devout Jesuit monk who has moved to the projects of the Bronx. The story is interspersed with fictionalized accounts of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk across the Twin Towers, the date on which the two main events of the novel occur: a fatal car crash and a trial. The events of the story are told in a largely non-linear fashion, with several different narrators telling the story from different perspectives. Its title comes from the poem " Locksley Hall" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. ![]() ![]() National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative literary prizes in the world. Let the Great World Spin is a novel by Colum McCann set mainly in New York City in the United States. ![]()
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