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# The Year of Magical Thinking: A candid memoir navigating grief and self-discovery (Collins Modern Classics) Paperback – 13 May 2021

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 0008485127 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,257,376 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #11 in Love & Loss #26 in Memoirs (Books) #720 in Grief & Bereavement |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (14,148) |
| Dimensions  | 5.08 x 0.59 x 7.8 inches |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 1400078431 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0008485122 |
| Item Weight  | 10.4 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 240 pages |
| Publication date  | May 13, 2021 |
| Publisher  | HARPER COLLINS |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Outstanding
*by M***Y on 15 June 2009*

Didion gives us the privilege of spending a year with her. A year in which her husband dies of a massive heart attack at the table as they sit down for dinner, and a year in which her only child hangs onto life by a thread in intensive care suffering from one potentially fatal illness after another.Didion's prose is always lucid, but here the crisp journalistic approach to her subject is muted by her personal odyssey, her frantic need to try to understand and get to grips with events and feelings that are not as easily pinned down or understood as the hard facts and figures she reads and writes about, trying to give herself something to use as an anchor point in her rapidly disintegrating life.Other reviewers have commented on her lack of warmth, her obsessive compulsion to log the minutiae of the days that follow her husband's death and suggested that this means that she is cold. Far from it in my opinion. At the beginning of the book she talks about the strange split in one's psyche when someone close to you dies, the feeling that the world has shattered apart and will never be the same again. Yet at the same time one is obliged to continue living life as if unaffected because our modern sensibilities do not allow for outpourings of raw grief. Then there is the fact that even if we grieve more ostentatiously, the world with all its drab little facts continues turning whether we like it or not.Didion walks the tightrope between a grief so profound that she dare not throw away her husband's shoes in case he comes back and needs them, and the fact that she has to be present in the world for her daughter. She clings to the pragmatic, to the facts, like a drowning woman grabbing a life raft. Her prose is exquisite, much like her pain. An astonishing book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A book about  Bereavement & Loss & How we cope with it.
*by L***E on 23 July 2015*

Very heart-breaking because of what happened subsequently to her daughter after publication ( I heard this on the radio 4).... but for me personally, who had also recently lost a husband, it was a comfort to read that my symptoms & phobias were not particular to me.... e.g. a feeling that you get just before crying, but which in our case just stayed & choked one without the relief of tears. I had never read about that one before. It was very therapeutic therefore, for me to know she felt it too...... and whilst I read this book, it became for awhile my best friend.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Styx blackly glitters
*by L***Q on 22 April 2016*

This book is hypnotic and full of sharp, imposing shards of prose that reflect the author's conscious and unconscious responses to losing her life partner. The smoothness of the journey is a testament to the craftsmanship, because the subject-matter is devastating and arrests one with prismatic reflections and repetitions of phrases still wistfully regnant in the nostalgic memories laid forth in the text. I had been drawn to this book having (entirely by chance - perchance a magical parallel) come upon a copy of the author's Blue Nights, and was struck by the force of the prose considering its deceptive simplicity. I would encourage readers both with an ear for interesting-metered American English, and those who have ever wondered how to cope with the entropy of losing someone they hold fondly, to give this a try. The book is broken up into short chapters which aid reflection and also add to the effect of scenic shifts.

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