The Great Wide Open
New York, 1980s. Alice Burns — a young book editor — is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations within resonate, .. Lire la suite
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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.
