The Year Of Magical Thinking

The Year Of Magical Thinking

From one of America?s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion 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.Review?Thrilling . . . a living, sharp, and memorable book. . . . An exact, candid, and penetrating account of personal terror and bereavement . . . sometimes quite funny because it dares to tell the truth.?-Robert Pinsky,The New York Times Book Review?Stunning candor and piercing details. . . . An indelible portrait of loss and grief.?-Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times?I can?t think of a book we need more than hers. . . . I can?t imagine dying without this book.?-John Leonard,New York Review of Books?Achingly beautiful. . . . We have come to admire and love Didion for her preternatural poise, unrivaled eye for absurdity, and Orwellian distaste for cant. It is thus a difficult, moving, and extraordinarily poignant experience to watch her direct such scrutiny inward.?-Gideon Lewis-Kraus,Los Angeles Times?An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief. . . . It also skips backward in time [to] call up a shimmering portrait of her unique marriage. . . . To make her grief real, Didion shows us what she has lost.?-Lev Grossman,Time About the AuthorJoan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.Joan Didion'sWhere I Was From, Political Fictions, The Last Thing He Wanted, After Henry, Miami, Democracy, Salvador, A Book of Common Prayer, andRun River are available in Vintage paperback.Excerpt.