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title: "The Year of Magical Thinking Paperback – 4 Sept. 2006"
brand: "joan didion"
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# The Year of Magical Thinking Paperback – 4 Sept. 2006

**Brand:** joan didion
**Price:** € 5.94
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- **What is this?** The Year of Magical Thinking Paperback – 4 Sept. 2006 by joan didion
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Beautiful
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2023*

A moving and at times devastating book- anyone who has lost someone will be able to relate to this. I couldn’t put it down- a touching portrait of grief

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Gripping
  

*by Z***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 February 2024*

I had no intention to buy or read this book. It popped up on screen at a reduced price through Bookbub. I'd heard of the author's name and reputation so I just looked at the first few pages in the preview and...And that was that.Hooked. Book bought. Book read straight away, leaving other books-in-progress on the shelf. The author treads the narrow line of self-indulgence while she just lets rip about her mental state after the sudden deathof her husband and the serious illness of their daughter. The book is quietly moving. Another reviewer here has said devastating and they're right.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Outstanding
  

*by M***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2009*

Didion gives us the privilege of spending a year with her. A year in which her husband dies of a massive heart attack at the table as they sit down for dinner, and a year in which her only child hangs onto life by a thread in intensive care suffering from one potentially fatal illness after another.Didion's prose is always lucid, but here the crisp journalistic approach to her subject is muted by her personal odyssey, her frantic need to try to understand and get to grips with events and feelings that are not as easily pinned down or understood as the hard facts and figures she reads and writes about, trying to give herself something to use as an anchor point in her rapidly disintegrating life.Other reviewers have commented on her lack of warmth, her obsessive compulsion to log the minutiae of the days that follow her husband's death and suggested that this means that she is cold.  Far from it in my opinion.  At the beginning of the book she talks about the strange split in one's psyche when someone close to you dies, the feeling that the world has shattered apart and will never be the same again. Yet at the same time one is obliged to continue living life as if unaffected because our modern sensibilities do not allow for outpourings of raw grief. Then there is the fact that even if we grieve more ostentatiously, the world with all its drab little facts continues turning whether we like it or not.Didion walks the tightrope between a grief so profound that she dare not throw away her husband's shoes in case he comes back and needs them, and the fact that she has to be present in the world for her daughter. She clings to the pragmatic, to the facts, like a drowning woman grabbing a life raft. Her prose is exquisite, much like her pain.  An astonishing book.

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