{"product_id":"great-wide-open-pb","title":"Douglas Kennedy: The Great Wide Open [2019] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York, 1980s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she reads she wonders: When did the sadness start? And could it be that unhappiness is a choice?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThus 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Wide Open\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kennedy, Douglas","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47226179551571,"sku":"XV80099585213","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47344061972819,"sku":"XG80099585213","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":44211366789410,"sku":"9780099585213","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kennedy-douglas-douglas-kennedy-the-great-wide-open-2019-paperback-58329718653267.jpg?v=1727459947","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/great-wide-open-pb","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}