The Year of Magical Thinking

Author(s): Joan Didion

BIOGRAPHY

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.


Product Information

Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction: among them the great portraits of a decade in essays, Sentimental Journeys, The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

General Fields

  • : 9780007216857
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : 4th Estate GB
  • : 0.18
  • : February 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Joan Didion
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 227