The Great Wide Open [Littérature, Langues et Religions] / DOUGLAS KENNEDY
Language: anglais.Publication: London : hutchinson, Cop 2019.Description: 1 volume 584 pages : couverture illustrée en couleurs ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780091953737.Abstract: It'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 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 bullying, 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. The 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.Subject - Topical Name: Littérature américaine| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due |
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Bibliothèque Universitaire Mohamed Sekkat 3ème étage | 810 KEN (Browse shelf) | Available | NEW 2019 |
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| 810 BRE Le gang des cafouilleux | 810 CLA The Bane chronicles | 810 CON L' ange noir | 810 KEN The Great Wide Open | 810 MCC Le clan Rhett Butler | 810 SIM Onze heures à vivre | 810 أحم مآسي متقاض |
It'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 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 bullying, 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. The 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
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