{"product_id":"9780099585213","title":"The Great Wide Open","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Kennedy, Douglas \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 25 July 2019 by Cornerstone (Arrow Books Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 592 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 197 x 37 | 412g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Accomplished…a strangely mesmerising effect…absolutely excellent’ New StatesmanNew York, 1980sAlice 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57350209372541,"sku":"9780099585213","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9780099585213.jpg?v=1762624196","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.live\/products\/9780099585213","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}