The Great Wide Open

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Beschreibung:

'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.

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Produktdetails:

• Autor:in: Douglas Kennedy
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• Seitenumfang: 584 Seiten
• ISBN: 9780099585213