{"product_id":"9780091953737","title":"The Great Wide Open","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's 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.\u003cbr\u003eAs she reads she wonders: When  did the sadness start? And  could it be that unhappiness is a choice?\u003cbr\u003eThus 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Douglas+Kennedy\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eDouglas Kennedy\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Douglas Kennedy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376925491363,"sku":"9780091953737","price":290.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780091953737_84488796-b541-4164-becd-165710f54319.jpg?v=1776452192","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9780091953737","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}