{"product_id":"the-great-wide-open-by-douglas-kennedy","title":"The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond Hand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew York, 1980s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs she reads she wonders: When did the sadness start? And could it be that unhappiness is a choice?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"U-turn Online Thrift Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48050161254587,"sku":"B0405","price":72.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/2483\/7819\/files\/IMG_3844_cropped.webp?v=1783083568","url":"https:\/\/shop.uturn.org.za\/products\/the-great-wide-open-by-douglas-kennedy","provider":"U-turn Online Thrift Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}