The year of magical thinking / By Joan Didion

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Didion , Joan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Collins Modern Classics , 2005 .Description: 227 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:

9780008485122

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DDC classification:

813.54

LOC classification:

PS3554 .I33 .Z63

Summary: Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML: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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Footprints International School Library Network Toul Tom Poung Campus TTP Secondary Non-Fiction Bookshelves	Non-Fiction	DID 813.54 PS3554 .I33 .Z63 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	04/15/2026	2026-0142

Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML: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.

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