{"product_id":"douglas-kennedy-the-great-wide-open-9780099585220","title":"The Great Wide Open","description":"'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.","brand":"Random House UK Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53370903855446,"sku":"9780099585220-V","price":2.69,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53552497754454,"sku":"9780099585220-G","price":4.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780099585220_1.jpg?v=1777874451","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/douglas-kennedy-the-great-wide-open-9780099585220","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}