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Product Identifiers
PublisherHighbridge Audio
ISBN-101665168676
ISBN-139781665168670
eBay Product ID (ePID)28050400691
Product Key Features
Book TitleYear of Magical Thinking
Publication Year2005
TopicWomen, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary
LanguageEnglish
GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJoan Didion
FormatCompact Disc
Dimensions
Item Length5.7 In.
Item Width5.2 In.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsUnforgettable...Bothpersonal and universal. She has given the reader an eloquent starting point inwhich to navigate through the wilderness of grief., An exact, candid, and penetrating account of personalterror and bereavement...sometimes quite funny because it dares to tell thetruth., An exactingself-examination...Also a heartbreaking...love letter, engrossing in its candor...Didionilluminates the bond between husband and wife., Her devastating examination of grief and widowhood changed the nature of writing about bereavement., Some of the plainest, yetmost eloquent prose you'll ever encounter. Everyone who has ever lost anyone,or will ever lose anyone, would do well to read it., Can one call an audio performance ravishing? That's what Barbara Caruso delivers in this perfect marriage of writing and narration...In a voice as warm and clear as wildflower honey, Barbara Caruso speaks Didion's words as if they flow straight from her own heart. It's subtly done: a smile in the voice when the line is witty, an intake of breath before pain. Caruso sounds fascinated. And we are engrossed from first word to last. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award., An act of consummateliterary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mindas it becomes clouded with grief...It also skips backward in time [to] call up ashimmering portrait of her unique marriage.
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. 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.
