{"product_id":"the-great-wide-open","title":"The Great Wide Open","description":"'Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent'\u003cbr\u003e New Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\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.","brand":"Random House UK Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57585283432774,"sku":"9780099585213","price":13.44,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/2386b2add9189615cd47eea2e70abe4120a7cb7183b0255f66e0d634f930bf09.jpg?v=1791870436","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/products\/the-great-wide-open","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}