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# The Year of Magical Thinking

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Review: Livro tocante e muito bem escrito.
Review: 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.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 0008485127 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #152,121 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #22 in Biographies of Authors #40 in Self-Help for Death & Grief #134 in Biographies of Professionals & Academics |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (4,051) |
| Dimensions  | 12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 1400078431 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0008485122 |
| Item weight  | 294 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 240 pages |
| Publication date  | 13 May 2021 |
| Publisher  | Fourth Estate |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by C***T on 17 November 2025*

Livro tocante e muito bem escrito.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*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.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by A***R on 10 July 2025*

Great memoir from a exceptional writer.

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