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WTC Provides Back Story For Colum McCann’s ‘Spin’

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“What I was most interested in was not so much Philip Petit but the people who were on the ground, the people who walk the sort-of little tightrope of our ordinary everyday moments,” McCann says.

The reactions of McCann’s main characters to the stunt range from gripping fear that the tight-rope walker will fall, to disinterest or even disgust.

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