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Joan Didion (Author), Barbara Caruso (Narrator), a division of Recorded Books HighBridge (Publisher). The Netflix documentary 'The Center Will Not Hold' inspired me to read 'The Year of Magical Thinking'.

Joan Didion (Author), Barbara Caruso (Narrator), a division of Recorded Books HighBridge (Publisher). Get this audiobook plus a second, free. Such good medicine for a grieving heart. I'd bottled up much of that grief after having lost two very special loved ones to cancer and the dissolution of my marriage all within a period of two years. The documentary cracked my heart open again; the book encouraged me to start the healing process. I know why we try to keep the dead alive," Didion writes.

Published by Knopf in October 2005, The Year of Magical Thinking was immediately acclaimed as a classic book about mourning. It 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 phy.

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But here, in Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, loss is absolutely, irrevocably about death. More specifically, the death of her husband, John. This is not, as I once suspected, a self-help book, and there aren't, as I once thought, tips here on how to embrace magical thinking. I think Ms. Didion's fiction might be a more appropriate undertaking for me, and I will tackle some of it soon, but I do hope her characters dine on something other than daubes and albóndigas. Whatever the hell those ar. .

In The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience. Her portrait of a marriageand a life, in good times and badwill speak directly to anyone who has ever loved a husband, a wife, or a child. Attn: Author/Narrator If you have any queries please contact me at info19782 @ gmail.

This powerful book is Didion’s ‘attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death . It's incredible how Joan can make intimate and touchy even the reading of medical reports.

This powerful book 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 illnes. bout marriage and children and memor. bout the shallowness of sanity, about life itself’. The result is an exploration of an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage, and a life, in good times and bad. Biographies. To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate.

Joan Didion is one of the most iconic authors of our time, and her breadth of work captures American life in a way few others have come . Keep reading for the best Joan Didion books to read before you watch the Netflix documentary.

Joan Didion is one of the most iconic authors of our time, and her breadth of work captures American life in a way few others have come close to. In 2017, Netflix released a new documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, which paints a more intimate portrait of the author (who turns 85 this December) and is directed by her nephew, actor and filmmaker Griffin Dunne. So when you find yourself needing an escape, what better time to revisit some of Didion's most celebrated works? Keep reading for the best Joan Didion books to read before you watch the Netflix documentary

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Among the letters and books and magazines that had arrived while I was in Los Angeles was a thick volume called Lives of ’54, prepared for what was by then the imminent fiftieth reunion of John’s class at Princeton. I looked up John’s entry. It read: William Faulkner once said that a writer’s obituary should read, ‘He wrote books, then he died. This is not an obit (at least as of 19 September 2002) and I am still writing books. So I’ll stick with Faulkner. I told myself: this was not an obit.