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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion HC/DJ First Edition / 1st Print 2005
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Original Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9781400043149
- Book Title
- Year of Magical Thinking
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 13.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Information
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,"""
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
140004314x
ISBN-13
9781400043149
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038841681
Product Key Features
Book Title
Year of Magical Thinking
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, Literary
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Family & Relationships, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3554.I33z63 2005
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.
Copyright Date
2005
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2005-045132
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Dewey Edition
22
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