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- Edition:
- Unabridged (HighBridge Company)
- Length:
- 5 hours, 10 minutes
- File Size:
- 142 MB (4 files)
- Published:
- October 2005
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Summary
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack.
This powerful and moving work 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." With vulnerability and passion, Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience of love and loss. THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING will speak directly to anyone who has ever loved a husband, wife, or child.
This powerful and moving work 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." With vulnerability and passion, Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience of love and loss. THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING will speak directly to anyone who has ever loved a husband, wife, or child.
Quotes from the Critics
"[A]n indispensable addition to Didion's body of work and a lyrical, disciplined entry in the annals of mourning literature." - Publishers Weekly
"A potent depiction of grief...." - Kirkus
"Mental and psychological pain, at every stage, are exquisitely rendered by Didion: her habitually fragmented prose, heavy with abstractions and the pathos of the everyday, here finds its perfect subject." - Times Literary Supplement
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