M A R C H

[Benjamin Law]

Y & R   B O O K C L U B   F O R   M A R C H

In March, the Young and the Restless bookclub discusses 'Let the Great World Spin', a novel by the Irish novelist Colum McCann.

S Y N O P S I S

It's August of 1974, and Watergate and the Vietnam War make the world feel precarious. A stunned hush pauses the cacophonous universe of New York City as a man on a cable walks (repeatedly) between World Trade Center towers. This extraordinary, real-life feat by French funambulist Philippe Petit becomes the touchstone for stories that briefly submerge you in ten varied and intense lives — a street priest, heroin-addicted hookers, mothers mourning sons lost in war, young artists, a Park Avenue judge. All their lives are ordinary and unforgettable, overlapping at the edges, occasionally converging.

A C C O L A D E S 

"One of the most electric, profound novels I have read in years."

— Jonathan Mahler, The New York Times

“This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it’s a damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York."

— Dave Eggers

D E T A I L S

WHEN: Thursday 01 April @ 6.30pm (Y&R Bookclub now takes place on the first Thursday of the month)

WHERE: Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Street, West End

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C O M I N G   U P

APRIL: 'Solar' (Ian McEwan)

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