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Twist” is the electrifying new novel from Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award for “Let the Great World Spin.” ...
In 2009, Colum McCann published a curious book called “Let the Great World Spin” that had everybody looking up. The novel, which went on to win both a National Book Award and the International ...
As with his previous novel Apeirogon (2020) and the much-garlanded Let the Great World Spin (2009), Colum McCann’s Twist demonstrates his eye for a premise. Along the bottom of the ocean run the ...
McCann had written to her when he came across a photograph of James reading a copy of Let the Great World Spin. [ Eight years after James Foley’s murder by Isis, his mother sat down with his captor.
Colum McCann's new novel, ... Below, the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin recommends six other ocean tales. 'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway (1952) ...
Colum McCann: Hi! The guard smiles, ... Let the Great World Spin had more than a dozen different narrators, but it dovetails with Twist, which has one single narrator: ...
Colum McCann stands in the art deco lobby of the old Western Union headquarters in lower Manhattan. ... ESQ: That’s reminiscent also of Let the Great World Spin [McCann’s 2009 novel, ...
Colum McCann, whose novel, “Let the Great World Spin,” won the National Book Award for fiction last week, finds inspiration by burrowing into lives unlike his own. By Motoko Rich Colum McCann ...
McCann is best known for sweeping social novels held together by an organizing figure. Most famously, there’s “Let the Great World Spin,” from 2009, which won a National Book Award.Bounding ...
Colum McCann's new novel, Twist, tracks a group at sea tasked with repairing the underwater cables through which we all communicate.Below, the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great ...