The Year of Magical Thinking
“Life changes in an instant. On an ordinary day.”
This is how Joan Didion begins her journey through the memories of the most transformative year of her life, starting on the night her husband, the writer John Dunne, to whom she had been married for more than 30 years, dies of a heart attack, and her only daughter is in a coma in the hospital. With writing that is as incisive as it is clear, as honest as it is disarming, Didion explores the living who survive the dead, revealing through her personal experience that which is universal to us all: the pain of loss, the need to persevere when everything seems futile.
At times journalistic, drawing on studies, experts, or poems and works of art, and at others confessional and literary, yet avoiding self-pity, Didion lets the stream of her consciousness travel through memories of marriage, and of motherhood and writing—recollections that emerge at every turn as she arranges her husband’s funeral or visits her unconscious daughter in the hospital.
ISBN: 9789898886125
Chancela: Culture
Edição: novembro de 2017
Tradução: Hugo Gonçalves
Dimensões: 150 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
Encadernação: capa mole
Páginas: 182
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Livros de Joan Didion
Blue Nights
The Last Thing He Wanted
The Year of Magical Thinking
I'm Going to Tell You What I Think
Notes for John
