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The great wide open / Douglas Kennedy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, England : Hutchinson, c2019.Description: 584 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781786331694 (cased) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR6061.E5956 G74 2019
Summary: It is 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 choice? Thus 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 U.S. 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.
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Books Books Grand Bay Branch Library Fiction Hard Cover Fiction F Ken (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available GRAN19070749
Books Books Marigot Branch Library Fiction Hard Cover Fiction F Ken (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MARI19070750
Books Books Roseau Public Library Fiction Hard Cover Fiction F Ken (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available ROSE19070746
Books Books Roseau Public Library Fiction Hard Cover Fiction F Ken (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available ROSE19070747
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It is 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 choice? Thus 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 U.S. 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.

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