LITERATURE

The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion

Knopf. 2005. 227p. ISBN 9781400043149. $25.95; pap. ISBN 9781400078431. $14.95.

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"You sit down to dinner, and life as you know it ends," Didion repeats in her hypnotic memoir about her life before and after the death of her husband, author John Gregory Dunne. In recounting her mourning with its mixture of loving reflections and painful second-guessing, she finds the words that eluded her for a year. An important addition to the literature of grief. (LJ 9/1/05)

Reviewed by Staff , Jan 24, 2013

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