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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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May 15, 2007 | ISBN 9780307386410

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Praise

“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

“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

Awards

National Book Awards WINNER

National Book Critics Circle Awards NOMINEE

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