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In the streets below, ordinary lives become extraordinary as award-winning novelist Colum McCann crafts this stunningly realized portrait of a city and its people.Ĭorrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among prostitutes in the Bronx. It is August, 1974, and a tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter-mile in the sky. Looking for a reading guide? Click here to download itĪn American masterpiece from internationally bestselling novelist Colum McCann-a dazzling and hauntingly rich vision of the loveliness, pain, and mystery of New York City in the 1970s In the dawning light of the late summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers…

Shortly thereafter, he dies, and Adelita is never sure if he would have continued their relationship.Ĭorrigan is the most fully developed character in the novel.Click here to download an excerpt of the book He considers his attraction to Adelita to be a test and struggles with his decision to fall in love or reject her. Eventually, he does express his love and sleeps with his beloved. When Corrigan joins the order of monks in Belgium, he takes the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The poverty is something he accepts naturally. The obedience is only a little challenging: he does not want to go to New York, but he does go. The chastity he sees as part of his commitment to loving God and his neighbor. When he fully gives himself to God and neighbor, there is no room for romantic love in his life. Corrigan is an Irish Catholic whose religious beliefs influence and control his life and actions. He is a Christian in the most direct way, as a follower and imitator of Jesus Christ. One way this manifests is his service to the poor both in Ireland and in New York.