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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10140004314X
ISBN-139781400043149
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Product Key Features
Book TitleYear of Magical Thinking
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, Literary
Publication Year2005
GenreFamily & Relationships, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJoan Didion
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13.2 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.4 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-045132
Dewey Edition22
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Reviews"Her book is thrilling . . . a living, sharp, memorable book . . . An exact, candid, and penetrating account of personal terror and bereavement . . . sometimes quite funny because it dares to tell the truth." Robert Pinsky, The New York Times Book Review (cover) "An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief . . . It also skips backward in time [to] call up a shimmering portrait of her unique marriage . . . To make her grief real, Didion shows us what she has lost." Lev Grossman, Time "I can't think of a book we need more than hers . . . I can't imagine dying without this book." -John Leonard, New York Review of Books "Achingly beautiful . . . We have come to admire and love Didion for her preternatural poise, unrivaled eye for absurdity, and Orwellian distaste for cant. It is thus a difficult, moving, and extraordinarily poignant experience to watch her direct such scrutiny inward." Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Los Angeles Times "Stunning candor and piercing details . . . An indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . [A] haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, "Her book is thrilling . . . a living, sharp, memorable book . . . An exact, candid, and penetrating account of personal terror and bereavement . . . sometimes quite funny because it dares to tell the truth." Robert Pinsky, The New York Times Book Review (cover) "An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief . . . It also skips backward in time [to] call up a shimmering portrait of her unique marriage . . . To make her grief real, Didion shows us what she has lost." Lev Grossman, Time "I can't think of a book we need more than hers . . . I can't imagine dying without this book." -John Leonard, New York Review of Books "Achingly beautiful . . . We have come to admire and love Didion for her preternatural poise, unrivaled eye for absurdity, and Orwellian distaste for cant. It is thus a difficult, moving, and extraordinarily poignant experience to watch her direct such scrutiny inward." Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Los Angeles Times "Stunning candor and piercing details . . . An indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . [A] haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times From the Hardcover edition., "Her book is thrilling . . . a living, sharp, memorable book . . . An exact, candid, and penetrating account of personal terror and bereavement . . . sometimes quite funny because it dares to tell the truth." -Robert Pinsky, "The New York Times Book Review "(cover) "An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief . . . It also skips backward in time Yto? call up a shimmering portrait of her unique marriage . . . To make her grief real, Didion shows us what she has lost." -Lev Grossman, "Time" "I can't think of a book we need more than hers . . . I can't imagine dying without this book." -John Leonard, "New York Review of Books ""Achingly beautiful . . . We have come to admire and love Didion for her preternatural poise, unrivaled eye for absurdity, and Orwellian distaste for cant. It is thus a difficult, moving, and extraordinarily poignant experience to watch her direct such scrutiny inward." -Gideon Lewis-Kraus, "Los Angeles Times ""Stunning candor and piercing details . . . An indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . YA? haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage." -Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times", " Her book is thrilling . . . a living, sharp, memorable book . . . An exact, candid, and penetrating account of personal terror and bereavement . . . sometimes quite funny because it dares to tell the truth." - Robert Pinsky, "The New York Times Book Review "(cover) " An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief . . . It also skips backward in time [to] call up a shimmering portrait of her unique marriage . . . To make her grief real, Didion shows us what she has lost." - Lev Grossman, "Time" " I can't think of a book we need more than hers . . . I can't imagine dying without this book." -John Leonard, "New York Review of Books "" Achingly beautiful . . . We have come to admire and love Didion for her preternatural poise, unrivaled eye for absurdity, and Orwellian distaste for cant. It is thus a difficult, moving, and extraordinarily poignant experience to watch her direct such scrutiny inward." - Gideon Lewis-Kraus, "Los Angeles Times "" Stunning candor and piercing details . . . An indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . [A] haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage." - Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times", "Her book is thrilling . . . a living, sharp, memorable book . . . An exact, candid, and penetrating account of personal terror and bereavement . . . sometimes quite funny because it dares to tell the truth." Robert Pinsky,The New York Times Book Review(cover) "An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief . . . It also skips backward in time [to] call up a shimmering portrait of her unique marriage . . . To make her grief real, Didion shows us what she has lost." Lev Grossman,Time "I can't think of a book we need more than hers . . . I can't imagine dying without this book." -John Leonard,New York Review of Books "Achingly beautiful . . . We have come to admire and love Didion for her preternatural poise, unrivaled eye for absurdity, and Orwellian distaste for cant. It is thus a difficult, moving, and extraordinarily poignant experience to watch her direct such scrutiny inward." Gideon Lewis-Kraus,Los Angeles Times "Stunning candor and piercing details . . . An indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . [A] haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage." Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times, "Her book is thrilling . . . a living, sharp, memorable book . . . An exact, candid, and penetrating account of personal terror and bereavement . . . sometimes quite funny because it dares to tell the truth." Robert Pinsky,The New York Times Book Review(cover) "An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief . . . It also skips backward in time [to] call up a shimmering portrait of her unique marriage . . . To make her grief real, Didion shows us what she has lost." Lev Grossman,Time "I can't think of a book we need more than hers . . . I can't imagine dying without this book." -John Leonard,New York Review of Books "Achingly beautiful . . . We have come to admire and love Didion for her preternatural poise, unrivaled eye for absurdity, and Orwellian distaste for cant. It is thus a difficult, moving, and extraordinarily poignant experience to watch her direct such scrutiny inward." Gideon Lewis-Kraus,Los Angeles Times "Stunning candor and piercing details . . . An indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . [A] haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage." Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal813/.54 B
SynopsisFrom one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage- and a life, in good times and bad- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later- the night before New Year's Eve- the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the " weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself,""", Didion chronicles the experience of losing her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, to a massive coronary, just weeks after the two of them watched as their only daughter was put into an induced coma to save her life. With honesty and passion, Didion explores this intensely personal yet universal experience., From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage-and a life, in good times and bad-that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later-the night before New Year's Eve-the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself . ", NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. One of The New York Times 's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century * A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later--the night before New Year's Eve--the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion' s attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself ., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. One of The New York Times 's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later--the night before New Year's Eve--the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion' s attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself .
LC Classification NumberPS3554.I33Z63 2005
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- 09. Aug. 2019
Deeply thoughtful, engrossing and personally relatable
Like the author Joan Didion, my husband died suddenly almost 3 years ago. I thought it would be helpful for me to get another widow's perspective. While I never did things hoping that my husband would "magically" come back, I could relate very deeply to the majority of what Ms. Didion was describing. Most of the time while reading the book, I found myself nodding and acknowledging that I felt the exact same way as Ms. Didion: "Yes, that happened to me!" "Yes, that's what I did!" "Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking!" "Yes, that's exactly how I felt!" I was so moved by "The Year of Magical Thinking" that I am going to a one-woman play adaptation of it in the near future. Highly recommended to anyone who is dealing with the unexpected loss of a beloved spouse.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 17. Sep. 2019
For Any Who Are Grieving
This may be the best book written to date solely dedicated to the attempt to describe the loss of a spouse or other person with whom you experience true intimacy. Joan has expressed in words many of the experiences I have had since my Help Meet died 21 months ago. I would’ve written a book with many of Joan’s experiences if I weren’t destroyed by Grief in my “first Year of Magical Thinking”. Don’t be mislead by the book’s title: Joan has a wicked and satirical sense of humor. You may read other reviews less positive than mine and that is OK. One reviewer was unhappy with Joan because her life has been one of privilege. Joan will express some experiences in the light of the life she has lived. Try to understand her feelings: indescribable pain with love and joy. A recommended read for any thinking human being.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 01. Feb. 2022
She’s great at expressing her feelings of loss.
As a fairly recent widow, I can identify with the author’s grief and mourning and failure to accept reality.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 12. Okt. 2017
A primer for the first year after the death of someone close.
She captured everything I went through. I have given this book to many who are suffering.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 25. Mai. 2022
Insights From The Year of Magical Thinking
The book is movingly written. I enjoy just about everything Joan Didion has written. The book is full of insight and new perspectives on the loss of a loved one. It can provide teachable insights, a better way of accepting loss. A very good read.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 03. Jan. 2023
Excellent memoir about grief.
After reading a library copy, I purchased it here and have loaned it to my sister. Our mom passed away in 2021, and this book resonated.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 08. Sep. 2020
Good book for mature adults.
Interesting treatise about love and death.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 25. Jan. 2025
Valuable example of a novel that has elements of memoir
Great buy. Excellent example of a novel that has elements of a memoir.Gret buy Great bookBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 27. Apr. 2025
Book in great shape - thank you!...
Book in great shape - thank you!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Mär. 2022
Title reflected the contents of the book
A book that really was interesting and could not put down.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
