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'Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent'New Statesman New 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 Openis 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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Great Wide Open
• Author: Douglas Kennedy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 584
• EAN: 9780099585220
• ISBN: 0099585227
• ID: 21610947
• Publisher: Random House
• Weight: 316 g
• Dimensions: 111 × 177 × 39 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. July 2019

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