The Year of Magical Thinking

ISBN: 140004314X

Author: Didion, Joan

Condition: New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of Americas most iconic writersOne of The New York Timess 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of The Guardians 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyJoan 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 TimesSeveral 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 illnessabout marriage and children and memoryabout the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.Didion has transformed grief into literature. -The Guardian

• Beautiful copy of "second printing before publication" hardcover edition with new dust jacket.