The Year of Magical Thinking Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Joan Didion
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
635

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Book Summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later—the night before New Year’s Eve—the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.

This powerful book 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.

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Book Name The Year of Magical Thinking
Genre Biographies & Memoirs
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 1.87 MB

The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion) Book Reviews 2024

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Beautiful. Great insight on the grieving process. As someone who lost his mom less than a year ago I found myself connecting with almost everything she wrote.

Slow Start but eventually couldn’t put it down!. This evoked several emotions and widen my perspectives. Meaningful read.

nothing is more permanent than death. and that's okay to talk about. to acknowledge. the fear, the anger, the love, the lost love, the pain, the hope - this book has brought me closer to the light than anything else has in the last 35 days since my mom had to leave. truly grateful for joan's words.

A classic. This book, with its captivating language and gripping storyline, delivers eloquently the tragedy that is the loss of a loved one. Didion, a remarkable writer, uses this book as a way to cope with the loss of her husband. Small in page length, yet intense it subject matter. Absolutely brilliant.

Very relatable. A book that in less professional hands could have been tiresome. However this is written by a wonderfully gifted author that knows how to relate her very personal feelings to the reader without being maudlin. Brought back a lot of my own feelings from when my mother died. Easily read and easily relatable

A truly magical read. This is the first Didion book I have read and I look forward to reading more. While I knew the outcome for both John and Q (I had seen the documentary), I was riveted by her account of them. For me, her matter-of-fact writing style underscored the impossible task of describing such an immense loss and its aftermath. Much like parenthood, you have no idea what the death of a loved one is like until you experience it for yourself. Didion does a remarkable and brave job of bringing that experience to life for her reader.

Insightful but not enough storytelling.... While there were nuggets of wisdom that resonated with me and that I will take with me, this was not a story with a clear begging and end. It seemed more of a fact telling timeline devoid of the emotion that was so obviously left out. More of a clinical approach to death. I did not feel the warmth I should have felt at the loss of someone so near and dear to her life. Maybe that was her therapy....

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The The Year of Magical Thinking book written by Joan Didion was published on 04 October 2005, Tuesday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 635 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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