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The Great Wide Open

By Douglas Kennedy

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The Great Wide Open

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'Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent' New Statesman New York, 1980s Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations within resonate, perhaps, because she has just watched her own family implode. As she reads she wonders: When did the sadness start? And could it be that unhappiness is a choice? Thus begins a great American epic which follows Alice as she navigates high school, first love and sexism at an elite college, a spell in 1970s Ireland, and a tragedy that sends her stateside as the US embraces a cowboy actor named Reagan. But it is also the tale of her endlessly complex parents and brothers - how their destinies are written by the lies they tell themselves and others. The Great Wide Open is an immensely ambitious and compulsive saga; a novel which will speak volumes to anyone who has marvelled at that pain that can only be caused by family itself.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
584
Release Date:
2019-07-25
Publication Date:
2019-07-25
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0099585227
ISBN13:
9780099585220
Weight:
318 g
Height:
108 cm
Width:
177 cm
Thickness:
48 cm

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