9780007216857
The Year of Magical Thinking
Didion, Joan
ISBN 13: 9780007216857
Publication Date: 2006
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'¬~It is the most awesome performance of both participating in, and watching, an event. Even though Didion does not allow herself to break down, only a terribly controlled reader will resist doing the same.' John Freeman, Independent'¬~Ultimately, and unexpectedly for a book about illness and death, this is a wonderfully life affirming book.' Lisa O'Kelly, Observer'¬~Searing, informative and affecting. Don't leave life without it.' Financial Times'¬~This is a beautiful and devastating book by one of the finest writers we have. Didion has always been a precise, humane and meticulously truthful writer, but on the subject of death she becomes essential.' Zadie Smith'¬~Taking the reader to places where they would not otherwise go is one of the things a really good book can do. '¬SThe Year of Magical Thinking'¬¥ does just that, and brilliantly. Powerful, moving and true.' Cressida Connolly, Spectator'¬~A great book, a great work. Angular, exact, pressured and tough, precise as a diamond drill bit.' Nick Laird'¬~Didion's famously sparse, honed, almost brittle prose spells out an anguish which is universal. Her book, exploring an agonising universal experience, will speak to and maybe comfort anyone who has lost for ever the one they loved.' Val Hennesy, Critics Choice, Daily Mail'¬~Cool has been Didion's literary trademark, but this brave book maps a year in her life when the world flipped over to expose the underside of cool where things go bad.' The Times
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