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THE GREAT WIDE OPEN - DOUGLAS KENNEDY KARTONIER...

'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.

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