Whether or not they blatantly reveal themselves, all of these political tensions and events are at play in the background of each story in Let the Great World Spin.
Meanwhile, the Vietnam War was dragging on despite the fact that America had withdrawn its troops, and thus still greatly occupied the country’s public consciousness. In the background of the novel is the political climate: notably Richard Nixon’s involvement in the Watergate scandal-when the Democratic National Committee’s Watergate office was broken into and subsequently covered up by the president’s administration-which lead to his resignation on August 9, 1974. At the forefront of the book is Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between the Twin Towers on August 7, 1974. Let the Great World Spin makes use of a vast array of political and cultural events that took place in the 1970s. Perhaps most notably, he is a co-founder of the global nonprofit Narrative 4, a story-exchange program that seeks to transcend stereotypes and barriers through the use of storytelling and the idea of “radical empathy.” He has penned six novels and three story collections, won numerous awards, and is known internationally for his literary work as well as for his involvement with charities and nonprofits. In the early 1990s McCann moved to New York, where he currently lives with his wife and three children.
He went on to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in English and history. Soon after, he found himself in Texas, where he worked as an outdoor leader on wilderness trips for at-risk youth.
After an initial failed attempt to do so, however, he decided to ride his bicycle across the country in order to enliven his emotional capacities. When he was 21 he moved from Ireland to the United States, where he planned to write a novel. McCann himself became a journalist by the age of 17, quickly thereafter taking on his own newspaper column. Colum McCann was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1965, the son of a newspaper editor.
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