Chapter 5 is written from the perspective of a 14-year-old person, Fernando, who took a famous picture of the walker during his walk. Chapter 3 ends with a suggestion that Lara and Ciaran are falling in love.Ĭhapter 4 introduces the tightrope walker's perspective or the amount of work he put into preparing his big walk and how he feels when walking in the air. Lara is deeply affected by the accident and attends Jazzlyn's funeral where she meets Ciaran. Robert was driving the car that causes the accident that killed Corrigan and Jazzlyn. Claire's connection to other characters becomes apparent later in the book.Ĭhapter 3 is written from the perspective of Lara, a married artist who is a recovering drug addict. Chapter 1 ends with Corrigan dying in a car accident with one of the prostitutes he often helped, Jazzlyn.Ĭhapter 2 is written from the perspective of Claire, a well-to-do judge's wife who is hosting a meeting at her house for a group of mothers who all lost sons in the Vietnam War.
Chapter 1 also reveals that Corrigan was in love and having a relationship with Adelita, which was something that caused much conflict for him. The first chapter is told through Ciaran's point of view as he shares background information about his childhood, Corrigan's childhood in Dublin, and Corrigan's road to becoming a priest and working with prostitutes in New York City.
As the story progresses, the reader will see that Corrigan and Ciaran were somehow involved in most of the other characters' lives throughout the book. "Let the Great World Spin," a novel by New York Times Bestselling author, Colum McCann, is a novel that follows the lives of several different characters who all either witnessed or heard about one event - a tightrope walker walking between the World Trade Center buildings in August 1974 - and whose lives become interconnected in one way or another.Ĭhapter 1 introduces John Andrew Corrigan, known as Corrigan, and his older brother Ciaran, whose name is not revealed until later in the book.
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