The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy

The Great Wide Open by Douglas KennedyAccomplisheda strangely mesmerising effectabsolutely excellent New StatesmanNew York, 1980sAlice 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

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