The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America's most iconic writersOne 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.
This powerful narrative 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 has transformed grief into literature." --The Guardian
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The Stranger
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Never Let Me Go
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Beloved
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The Road
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The Bluest Eye
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In Cold Blood
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Lolita
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The Remains of the Day
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All the Pretty Horses
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Blood Meridian
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Song of Solomon
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The Fire Next Time
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Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick
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No Country for Old Men
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Sula
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As I Lay Dying
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Norwegian Wood
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Giovanni's Room
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Kafka on the Shore
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Independent People
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Perfume
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
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The Plague
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A Fine Balance
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The Sound and the Fury
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The Woman Warrior
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1Q84
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White Teeth
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Ulysses
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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The English Patient
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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The Crossing
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Possession
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The Master and Margarita
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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The Fall
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Written on the Body
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Jazz
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Absalom, Absalom!
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The Plot Against America
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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The Buried Giant
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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American Pastoral
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781400078431 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400078431 |
| Title | The Year of Magical Thinking |
| Author | Joan Didion |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2007-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Awards 2006, Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |