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Author Kennedy, Douglas, 1955- author.

Title The great wide open / Douglas Kennedy.

Publication Info. London : Hutchinson, an imprint of Penguin Randon House, 2019.
©2019.

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 Plainville Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC KENNEDY    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F KENNEDY, DOUGLAS    Check Shelf
Description 584 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary It is 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns, a young book editor, is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonates, 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 bullying, first love and sexism at an elite college, a spell in 1970's 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.
Subject Women editors -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction.
Nineteen eighties -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
ISBN 9780091953737 (paperback)
0091953731 (paperback)
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