{"product_id":"great-wide-open-book-douglas-kennedy-9780099585220","title":"The Great Wide Open","description":"‘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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49521627267345,"sku":"GOR010649901","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0099585227.jpg?v=1750694082","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/great-wide-open-book-douglas-kennedy-9780099585220","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}