The Great Wide Open
Book formats
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Paperback 2 177руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Douglas Kennedy
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Language
- english
- Release date
- July 25, 2019
- ISBN
- 978-0-09-958521-3
- GTIN
- 9780099585213
- Weight, g
- 405
About
‘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.