Name: Let the Great World Spin
ISBN: 9781400063734

作者: Colum McCann
出版社: Random House
副标题: A Novel
出版年: 2009-6-23
页数: 368
定价: USD 25.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400063734

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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 Mc...

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Colum McCann is the author of three collections of short stories and six novels, including "Apeirogon," due to be published in Spring 2020. His other books include "TransAtlantic," "Let the Great World Spin," "This Side of Brightness,""Dancer" and “Zoli,” all of which were international best-sellers.

“Let the Great World Spin” won the National Book Award in 2009. His fiction ha...

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“Let the Great World Spin” won the National Book Award in 2009. His fiction has been published in over 40 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Paris Review and other places. He has written for numerous publications including The Irish Times, Die Zeit, La Republicca, Paris Match, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent.

Colum has won numerous international awards and has been a bestseller on four continents. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish association of artists, Aosdana. He has also received a Chevalier des Artes et des Lettres from the French government. He is the cofounder of the global non-profit story exchange organisation Narrative 4.

In 2003 Colum was named Esquire magazine's "Writer of the Year." Other awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Rooney Prize, the Irish Independent Hughes and Hughes/Sunday Independent Novel of the Year 2003, and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. He was recently inducted into the Hennessy Hall of Fame for Irish Literature.

His short film "Everything in this Country Must," directed by Gary McKendry, was nominated for an Academy Award Oscar in 2005.

Colum was born in Dublin in 1965 and began his career as a journalist in The Irish Press. In the early 1980's he took a bicycle across North America and then worked as a wilderness guide in a program for juvenile delinquents in Texas. After a year and a half in Japan, he and his wife Allison moved to New York where they currently live with their three children, Isabella, John Michael and Christian.

Colum teaches in Hunter College in New York, in the Creative Writing program, with fellow novelists Peter Carey and Tea Obreht.

Colum has completed his new novel, "Apeirogon." Crafted out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material, McCann tells the story of Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan. One is Israeli. One is Palestinian. Both are fathers. Both have lost their daughters to the conflict. When Bassam and Rami learn of each other's stories they recognize the loss that connects them, and they begin to use their grief as a weapon for peace.

In the novel McCann crosses centuries and continents. He stitches together time, art, history, nature and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. Musical, cinematic, muscular, delicate and soaring, Apeirogon is a novel for our times.

It is scheduled for release in the U.S in February 2020.

Advance copies will be available here on GoodReads!!!!

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每一个活物都有自己的逻辑。花有花的样式。人有人的规矩。水牛也有水牛的路数。空气有空气的规律。 (查看原文)

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南桥 2010-08-17 13:56:00

山不转水转的伟大世界

《转吧，这伟大的世界》，作者科伦·麦凯恩，即将由人民文学出版社出版 2010年6月底，我刚到爱尔兰的时候，在机场叫了辆出租车。司机是一位自称六十一岁的都柏林人，留着小胡子，模样让人想起演员、007 的扮演者之一肖恩·康纳利。路上我们说起了爱尔兰面临的经济萧条。我问他... (展开)

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芝麻开门 2010-02-23 19:52:29

《周末画报》专访专访2009年美国国家图书奖得主Colum McCann

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采访、撰文/钟蓓像很多“花心”的作家一样，科伦•麦凯恩（Colum McCann）在过去20年时间里，平均每3年换一个创作主题，完成一部不同的小说。2009年，第7部作品《让伟大世界旋转》（Let the Great world Spin）出版后，麦凯恩获得同年第60届美国国家图书奖。 2010年1月底... (展开)

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南桥 2010-05-29 06:45:07