Year of Magical Thinking

Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. Vintage International series. New York: Vintage, 2007.

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In this nationally acclaimed and best-seller, Joan Didion chronicles the experience of losing her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, to a massive coronary, just weeks after the two of them watched as their only daughter was put into an induced coma to save her life.  With honesty and passion, Didion explores this intensely personal yet universal experience.  This stunning book of electric honesty and passion 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.

Acclaimed as a classic book about mourning, The Year of Magical Thinking won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.  In 2024, The New York Times Book Review ranked The Year of Magical Thinking as the 12th best book of the 21st century.

Joan Didion has been a best-selling and acclaimed author for over sixty years.  See her publisher's biography here.

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