![]() While the event is hardly the focus of the novel, the walk is what links the narrative strands together rather than Petite himself, who is never even named, the day is a pivotal moment for each of the characters. McCann’s novel begins with Philippe Petite’s tightrope walk from the North to the South tower of the World Trade Center, a largely forgotten event until the Oscarwinning documentary, ‘Man on Wire,’ which came out in 2008. It is this careful prose, tightly crafted, that fills Let the Great World Spin: a novel preoccupied with the sounds of voices, bound together to create a vision of New York on August 7, 1974. They decided to leave the sentence as it was. McCann thought about the suggestion, and then said that if he changed that single word, he would not only have to change the whole sentence, but rewrite the paragraph as well. The Senior Editor of the Review introduced McCann by saying that when they were working on the excerpt for publication, the editors had suggested a change in the wording of one sentence-a small thing. At the Paris Review’s Salon in February 2009, Colum McCann read an excerpt from Let the Great World Spin that was printed in the magazine’s Fall 2008 issue. ![]()
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