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Sat 08 Aug 2009Bringing us back down to earth
FICTION: Let The Great World SpinBy Colum McCann, Bloombury, 349pp, £18.99 . Ironic, earthy, black humour is central to Colum McCann’s powerful take on loss and redemption, set in New York
VERY FEW, very simple words – “the first plane”, “the second plane”, “the twin towers” – bring us back to how the world changed on the morning of September 11th, 2001. The co-ordinated attacks left America the Beautiful scared and scarred. No need for YouTube. Memory replays the horror.
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