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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2019 |
| Seiten | 592 |
| Format | 13,0 x 20,0 x 3,7 cm |
| B-format paperback | |
| Gewicht | 412 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0099585219 |
| EAN | 9780099585213 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09958521EA |
'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.
Rezension:
This novel is a page-turner with a relentless pace Kate Saunders The Times
