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The Great Wide Open Douglas Kennedy
The Great Wide Open
Douglas Kennedy
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.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 25, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9780099585220 |
| Publishers | Random House |
| Dimensions | 177 × 111 × 39 mm · 316 g |
| Language | English |
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