The Great Wide Open
Kennedy Douglas, "The Great Wide Open"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0091953731, 1786331691 | EPUB | pages: 592 | 0.6 mb
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0091953731, 1786331691 | EPUB | pages: 592 | 0.6 mb
All families are secret societies. Realms of intrigue and internal warfare, governed by their own rules . . .Its 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonates, 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 choiceThus begins a great American epic which follows Alice as she navigates high school bullying, first love and sexism at an elite college, a spell in 1970's 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.