{"product_id":"9780099585213","title":"The Great Wide Open","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Accomplished…a strangely mesmerising effect…absolutely excellent’ New Statesman\u003cbr\u003eNew York, 1980s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she reads she wonders: When did the sadness start? And could it be that unhappiness is a choice?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/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":47377671225507,"sku":"9780099585213","price":270.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780099585213_017a6051-efd4-47b6-a8e0-618517255d23.jpg?v=1776453038","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9780099585213","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}