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The Great Wide Open / Douglas Kennedy

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Kennedy, Douglas ((1955-....).). Auteur

Edité par Hutchinson. London - 2019

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 resonates, 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 1970's 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.
New York, dans les années 1980. Dans un bureau, une éditrice parcoure un manuscrit. Un livre qui la trouble et qui va la replonger dans son passé et celui de sa famille. Sur le papier, une famille comme tant d'autres au pays de l'Oncle Sam, un bonheur propret, une vie plutôt confortable. Et pourtant... Aux annéess soixante insouciantes vont succéder les années soixante-dix tumultueuses. Et faire exploser au passage toutes ces familles qui croyaient encore au rêve amricain...

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