The Great Wide Open
Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
'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.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Arrow
- : 0.405
- : 01 July 2019
- : 3.5 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Douglas Kennedy
- : Paperback
- : Oct-19
- : English
- : 813.6
- : 592