![]() ![]() American, born in Manhattan, Kennedy started out writing radio plays while working at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin: which perhaps explains his ability with dialogue his characters can really talk. He has sold millions of copies worldwide, which of course makes one wonder why – and how. The obvious comparison might be with the work of, say, Robert Harris: books that are not only readable and accomplished but also somehow unsettling. ![]() Essentially, he writes glossy high-end sagas that have a steely literary core. But Kennedy is restless, both personally and professionally, and in terms of style and genre. According to his publisher he currently “divides his time between Maine, Manhattan, Paris, London and Berlin”: most of us can barely manage to divide our time between work and home. ![]() Kennedy, just in case you haven’t been paying attention, is a modern man of letters and an international best-seller. The Great Wide Open might be a description of the book, or indeed of Douglas Kennedy’s career: both territories are absolutely vast. ![]()
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