The Year of Magical Thinking

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Intimate journey through love, loss, and survival.

If you've ever faced the relentless waves of grief or have loved deeply, Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" will resonate with you. It's like sitting down with Didion herself as she navigates the tumultuous year following her husband's sudden death, with prose that cuts to the bone of the human experience. Her exploration of loss is profound, and you'll likely find solace and understanding in her reflections on life, death, and the illusions we cling to.

  • National Book Award for Nonfiction (2005)
  • Puddly Award for Nonfiction (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Year of Magical Thinking

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ISBN: 9781400043149
Authors: Joan Didion
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date of Publication: 2005-10-04
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.93
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From one of America’s most 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."
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Intimate journey through love, loss, and survival.

If you've ever faced the relentless waves of grief or have loved deeply, Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" will resonate with you. It's like sitting down with Didion herself as she navigates the tumultuous year following her husband's sudden death, with prose that cuts to the bone of the human experience. Her exploration of loss is profound, and you'll likely find solace and understanding in her reflections on life, death, and the illusions we cling to.

  • National Book Award for Nonfiction (2005)
  • Puddly Award for Nonfiction (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.