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The Year of Magical Thinking

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Joan Didion・・Ended

Updated: October 4, 2005

Content length: 227 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America’s most iconic writers One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Guardian’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Joan Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved and lost a husband or wife or child. In a work of electric honesty and passion, Didion explores how we all, somehow, will ourselves to survive. “An utterly shattering portrait of loss and grief.” –The New York Times Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana Roo, fall ill with septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later, the Dunnes were sitting down to dinner after visiting their daughter in the hospital when John suffered a fatal heart attack. In that one moment, their partnership of forty years came to an end.

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🌟 Editor’s Pick — Why It Belongs on Your Shelf

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion is a masterfully written memoir that takes you into the intimate and unflinching year following her husband’s sudden death and her daughter’s critical illness. With crystalline prose, Didion maps the surreal landscape of grief, memory and denial—what she calls “magical thinking,” the impossible beliefs we cling to when life unravels. The book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005 and has been hailed as one of the most important works of 21st‑century literature.

If you’ve ever faced big loss, or if you’re simply drawn to writing that refuses comfort and instead offers truth and clarity, this book will stay with you long after you finish it.