The Year of Magical Thinking
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Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work 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 . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." With vulnerability and passion, Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience of love and loss. THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING will speak directly to anyone who has ever loved a husband, wife, or child.
Journal Entry 2 by shellheap at Post Office in By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, November 4, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (11/5/2007 UTC) at Post Office in By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
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Sent by mail as an RABCK to smilingheron--enjoy!
Sent by mail as an RABCK to smilingheron--enjoy!
Received this book in the mail today as an RABCK - I'm so excited - it's the first RABCK I've ever received! THANK YOU shellheap!
I read this today, the day after Christmas, a lazy, rainy, perfect day for a good read.
It wasn't quite what I expected - I thought the daughter died too (she doesn't - which is a good thing!). While the daughter's medical issues are dire, I kept expecting her to die also. Didion certainly captures the mental and emotional upset of one who loses someone unexpectedly, and I was struck by how MUCH she was dealing with all at once. Losing her husband, and then the scary emotional roller coaster of her daughter's condition virtually at the same time.
I've been dealing with a slightly different issue - my dad died in 2002 after a long slow decline and now I am slowly losing my mother who had a stroke four years ago and whose dementia is getting worse every day.
I almost got in an argument once with a woman who lost her father suddenly, like Didion lost her husband. She, naturally, said it was terrible and awful and THE worst way to lost someone. I haven't lost someone that close to me so suddenly, but I have to say that losing loved ones slowly and agonizingly, is no bed of roses either.
It wasn't quite what I expected - I thought the daughter died too (she doesn't - which is a good thing!). While the daughter's medical issues are dire, I kept expecting her to die also. Didion certainly captures the mental and emotional upset of one who loses someone unexpectedly, and I was struck by how MUCH she was dealing with all at once. Losing her husband, and then the scary emotional roller coaster of her daughter's condition virtually at the same time.
I've been dealing with a slightly different issue - my dad died in 2002 after a long slow decline and now I am slowly losing my mother who had a stroke four years ago and whose dementia is getting worse every day.
I almost got in an argument once with a woman who lost her father suddenly, like Didion lost her husband. She, naturally, said it was terrible and awful and THE worst way to lost someone. I haven't lost someone that close to me so suddenly, but I have to say that losing loved ones slowly and agonizingly, is no bed of roses either.
In the spirit of RABCK (and thanks again to shellheap!), I'm sending this to CongestedChi in Texas as an RABCK. enjoy!
THANK YOU!!!! I have so been wanting to read this!
It is amazing what a surprise rabck can do for a person's spirits!!
Thank you...
It is amazing what a surprise rabck can do for a person's spirits!!
Thank you...
