Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Pettis: McCann spins great tale in ‘Let the Great World Spin`

But in actuality, the book is the fictional story of a handful of people who were in New York City on that day, and were affected, directly or indirectly, by Petit`s walk. He is mentioned only briefly in two short sections that describe how he prepared for the walk and how he felt on the actual day. “The core reason for it all was beauty. Walking was a divine delight. Everything was rewritten when he was up in the air. New things were possible with the human form. It went beyond equilibrium. … Another kind of awake.”
The real hero — the main character of this book — is New York City itself. “… everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.”
Two brothers, Irish immigrants, live in a Bronx slum. The younger, Corrigan, is a monk who lives out his faith in service to the poor, especially the prostitutes in his neighborhood. Two featured in the story are Tillie and her daughter, Jazzlyn. Corrie`s older brother can`t understand this way of living, but is drawn into it nonetheless.

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