So this tiny little moment affected me in all sorts of extraordinary ways.”Īll sorts of tiny and extraordinary moments make up “Let the Great World Spin,” a polyphonic novel set in 1970s New York that also works as an allegory about resilience and recovery after Sept. “But every single time I touch down in London, I can feel that woman’s presence, and also her generosity. McCann, now 44 and speaking with a strong Irish lilt despite having lived in New York for 15 years. “I know, for a fact, that if she’s still around, she would not remember that,” said Mr. When the waitress, herself also Irish, learned what had brought them to town, she stroked the young boy’s cheek and brought him an ice cream sundae. Afterward, his father took him to a Hard Rock Cafe for a hamburger. It was the first and as it turns out the last time that he met his grandfather. McCann, then growing up in suburban Dublin, to visit his ailing grandfather in a nursing home in London. A glass of wine had just arrived when Colum McCann, who won the National Book Award for fiction last week with “Let the Great World Spin,” leaned forward with a story to tell.
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