The Great Wide Open Paperback / softback
by Douglas Kennedy
Paperback / softback
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‘Accomplished…a strangely mesmerising effect…absolutely excellent’ New StatesmanNew York, 1980sAlice 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:Cornerstone
- Publication Date:25/07/2019
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- ISBN:9780099585213
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:Cornerstone
- Publication Date:25/07/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099585213