Book Review: Literary Geographies: Narrative Space in Let the Great World Spin

Given this mutual pivot towards one another, geography and literary studies have since begun to collaborate, resulting in a number of interdisciplinary analyses of which Sheila Hones's Literary Geographies: Narrative Space in Let the Great World Spin is the latest example. [...]by focussing on a single novel, Hones endeavours to provide a "broad picture" of one possible approach to analysing the spatial and collaborative event of a popular text, namely Colum McCann's National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin (2009). In the introduction, Hones reads the novel's central event - Philippe Petit's wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 - as an analogy for her own project; her "performance" in the "space between" literary studies and academic geography (4).