Let the Great World Spin (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

McCANN, Colum. Let the Great World Spin. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2014.

Octavo. Full deep blue leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 349 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the designated page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.

On the morning of 7 August 1974, the French funambulist Philippe Petit stepped onto a wire strung between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, then the tallest buildings in the world, and walked. He walked back and forth eight times, a quarter of a mile above lower Manhattan, stopping to lie on the wire, to salute a seagull, to dance. The feat was illegal and the wire had been rigged in secret over two nights. When Petit stepped back onto the roof he was immediately arrested. He was also, very briefly, the most famous person in the world.

The novel was published in June 2009 and won the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative literary prizes in the world. The Dublin Award judges described it as "a genuinely twenty-first century novel that speaks to its time but is not enslaved by it." McCann, born in Dublin in 1965, had lived in New York for many years by the time of publication, and the novel's intimacy with the city's geography, voices, and textures is that of a writer who has absorbed his material through years of sustained attention rather than research.

Near fine. Some fading to gilt on covers; otherwise fine throughout.

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Catalogue Number: HH000489