The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion • Penguin Random House • ISBN-13 978‑1400078431
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion • Penguin Random House
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ISBN-10: 1400078431 · ISBN-13: 978‑1400078431 · 2005 · First Edition
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In this profound memoir, Joan Didion chronicles the year following the sudden death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, while simultaneously navigating their daughter’s life-threatening illness. Through a lens of clinical detachment and raw vulnerability, Didion examines the irrationality of grief and the psychological mechanisms of denial. Her narrative serves as a seminal exploration of the human experience when confronted with the abrupt dissolution of a shared life.
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