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Let the Great World Spin is a novel by Colum McCann set mainly in New York City in the United States. The book won the 2009 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction [1] and the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative literary prizes in the world.
In 2010, Let the Great World Spin was named Amazon.com's "Book of the Year". Additionally, in 2010, McCann received a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He received a literary award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2011 and became a full member in 2014. [66] 15 June 2011 brought the ...
Let the Great World Spin TransAtlantic is a novel by Colum McCann , published in June 2013. Based upon the book, Colum wrote the lyrics for Clannad 's song "TransAtlantic", released with the album Nádúr in September 2013.
"Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of Poems. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on ...
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (August 16, 1908 – July 31, 2000) was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975.
First edition cover (publ. Random House, 1955) Ten North Frederick is a novel by John O'Hara, published by Random House in 1955. It tells the story of Joseph Chapin, an ambitious man who desires to become president of the United States, and his relationships with his patrician wife, two rebellious children, and mistress.
SPIN is teaming with Virgin Music Group’s Greater Than Distribution to launch its first record label, SPIN Records, the mission of which is to cultivate a sustainable environment for artists ...
Julia Glass (born March 23, 1956) is an American novelist.Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002. [1]Glass followed Three Junes with a second novel, The Whole World Over, in 2006, set in the same Bank Street–Greenwich Village universe, with three interwoven stories featuring several characters from Three Junes. [2]