This won the national book award 
 Which didn't stop me from becoming bored 
 Instead of this you could try a 
 Documentary called Man on a Wire 
 It's also about Philippe Petit's act 
 (Against which the cards were surely stacked) 
 To walk in the air between the two towers 
 For approximately 0.75 hours 
 On 7th August 1974. 
 By doing so he broke the law 
 But the DA for once did the right thing 
 And he wasn't sent to Rikers or Sing Sing 
 Where PP's feat was one of funambulism 
 Colum McCann's is more like somnambulism 
 Smack-head hookers, radical priests 
 Mothers of Vietnam vets, deceased 
 Not so much New York as Cliche City 
 And lachrymose where it should be gritty 
 Sorry to say Let the Great World Spin 
 Is the 12th novel this year to end up in the bin