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Product Identifiers

PublisherHighbridge Company

ISBN-10159887005X

ISBN-139781598870053

eBay Product ID (ePID)22038400048

Product Key Features

Publication Year2005

TopicWomen, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary

Book TitleYear of Magical Thinking

LanguageEnglish

GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJoan Didion

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 In.

Item Length5.3 In.

Item Weight4.8 Oz

Item Width6.4 In.

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsCan one call an audio performance ravishing? That's what Barbara Caruso delivers in this perfect marriage of writing and narration. - AudioFile [Earphones Award Winner], Can one call an audio performance ravishing? That's what Barbara Caruso delivers in this perfect marriage of writing and narration. AudioFile [Earphones Award Winner], "Can one call an audio performance ravishing? That's what Barbara Caruso delivers in this perfect marriage of writing and narration." -AudioFile [Earphones Award Winner], "Can one call an audio performance ravishing? That's what Barbara Caruso delivers in this perfect marriage of writing and narration." -- AudioFile [Earphones Award Winner]

Number of Volumes4 vols.

Dewey Decimal813/.54 B

Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition

SynopsisDidion'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., 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., In this intensely personal, deeply moving account'part memoir, part journalism'the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem exposes the layers and facets of her life over a year of dramatic and unexpected events., 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., 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.

Number of Pages1 pages

Narrated byCaruso, Barbara