The great wide open
Kennedy, Douglas, 1955-2019
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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.
Main title:
The great wide open / Douglas Kennedy.
Author:
Kennedy, Douglas, 1955-, author
Imprint:
London : Arrow Books, 2019.
Collation:
584 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Hutchinson.
ISBN:
9780099585213 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1168203