Let the Great World Spin follows the fortunes of a menagerie of New Yorkers through a day in 1974—the day of Philippe Petit’s deathdefying tightrope walk between the newly built Twin Towers.
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it’s the last we’ll ever have and we record it for the rest of our long journey. We take perfect snapshots, an album to despair over. We trim the edges and place them in plastic. We tuck the scrapbook away to take out in our ruined times.”
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Brill, didnt realise this was the next book. Just bought it