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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Year of Magical Thinkingby: Joan Didion  List Price: $13.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.16 You Save: $2.79 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781400078431 ISBN: 1400078431 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: February 13, 2007 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: February 13, 2007 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Explains a Magical Marriage While reading Joan Didion's memoir, which is centered on John Gregory Dunne's sudden death, my immediate reaction was that the appreciative audience is limited. Further reading proved me wrong. Like with me, the book will resonate with those who have absorbed the grief caused by unexpectedly losing a beloved and feeling the interminable leak of that profound loss. And, because Didion infuses the book with other well known literati and the celebrity haunts where they meet, there is a lot of interesting ... Read More Rating:  - good serviceThis is a book worth reading and the service from the seller was excellent. Immediate response and mail service was good. Don't miss this book. Rating: - Terrific memoir, painting a picture of grief and lossI thought Ms. Didion's description of the feelings, sounds, emotions that we experience when we've had a tragic loss were astonishingly accurate. When faced with great tragedy and grief, it is remarkable that we can even get out of bed in the morning. Rating: - So BeautifulI've read this book a couple of times now and I am certain I will revisit it every couple of years because it is amazingly well written and emotionally so real. I read a few of the negative reviews of this book and was kind of mystified by them, the main criticism is that segments of the book are disjointed and draft-like, but that is actually partly the point of the book. This element reflects how loss of this magnitude jars human thoughts and behavior; in this case, how it forced a pattern of repetitive ... Read More Rating: - Before the Moving On Begins This is a memoir told by writer Joan Didion on life immediately after the death of her husband, John Gregory Donne. (The book has been adapted into a one-woman broadway play as well.) In the book, Joan Didion writes as if she's thinking out loud. You can tell that the story is written for herself as if therapeutic and not for the sole purpose of selling a book, full of honesty and humility. When I was reading it, I wondered about the author's purpose for writing, thinking that it must be (for ... Read More 
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