The Year of Magical Thinking

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty
John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their daughter fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, then she was placed on life support. Days later, the Dunnes were sitting down to dinner when John suffered a massive and fatal coronary.
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 illness'. The result is a personal yet universal portrait of marriage and life, in good times and bad, from one of the defining voices of American literature.
'Beautiful and devastating ... Didion has always been a precise, humane and meticulously truthful writer, but on the subject of death she becomes essential' Zadie Smith

About the author

JOAN DIDION was the author of five novels, twelve books of nonfiction, a play, and many screenplays. She was born in California. She died at her home in New York City on December 23, 2021.

Summary

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Didion, Didion Joan
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.05.2021
• EAN: 9780008485122
• ISBN: 978-0-00-848512-2
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Collins Modern Classics
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Coping with death & bereavement, Autobiography: literary, Autobiography: writers, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement