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The Year Of Magical Thinking
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Ann
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A marvelous and heartbreaking examination of the powerful and maddening grip grief can have on our lives. It is difficult to effectively convey the feeling of grief -- even years after a great loss I still grapple with how to accurately express what I went through during that time. After reading Joan Didion's raw memoir I understood that I was not alone in this and she said all of the things that I was unable to.
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Ny heart broke for Joan Didion and all she went through during such a short span but I loved this memoir. Didion imparts a lot of wisdom to her readers about cherishing time left with family as she grieves the loss of her husband. I would recommend this book to anyone but with the warning that it's not a light read.
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This is the first piece I’ve read by the prolific Joan Didion and I will go back for more. In spite of my disagreements with her assumption on in-experienced grief, I truly enjoy caring enough about a piece of literature to re-evaluate my feelings on such a present subject. The raw candor in which she expresses what are undoubtedly the most painful moments of her life was startlingly eloquent. This is a beautiful and tragic story, one that is sure to become a classic concerning death and the grieving process. Highly recommended
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I just finished the book and without giving everything away Joan Didion has chronicled the months following the death of her husband. She opens herself so fully and relates this tragic event so honestly that it tears at your heart. Don't let this scare you away from this extraordinary memoir...death is inevitable and we will all have to come to terms with, or may have already. I absolutely couldn't put this book down. I just can't fathom that she lost her daughter in the time between finishing the book and it's publishing. It's so true what she writes about our sanity...that it is so fleeting.
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As a German I hadn't heard about Joan Didion before this book was mentioned on a German radio show. I read it after I had experienced myself a death in the family and found out that she found all the words I was missing. This book is a masterpiece because it connects Didion's private story with her keen mind and her brilliant journalistic skills.
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Joan Didion's genius has informed me on how to be a thinking modern American woman most of my adult life. Her fiction and non-fiction work has helped me to know what to expect as we deal with the hands we're dealt and all the while the beauty of her prose sometimes makes me have to catch my breath.
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Deniciepie
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This book changed my life. So powerfully written- I felt like I was right there with her experiencing the death like it was my own partner who had passed.
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Product Details
ISBN:
9781400078431
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
02/13/2007
Publisher:
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Series info:
Vintage International
Pages:
227
Height:
.70IN
Width:
5.20IN
Thickness:
.50
Series:
Vintage International
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2007
UPC Code:
2801400078433
Author:
Joan Didion
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
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Biography-Literary
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