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WTC Provides Back Story For Colum McCann's 'Spin'

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Fri, 11/27/2009 - 4:20am

McCann's novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award. He tells Steve Inskeep that his book — set in New York on the day a man walked on a tight-rope between the towers of the World Trade Center — is an attempt to reconstruct an event to find moments of grace and understanding in history.