The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Memoir / Non-Fiction
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
—· 240 p
National Book AwardNYT Bestseller21st Century Classicreflectivedarkhauntingphilosophical
Overview
About
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years Several days before Christmas 2003,…
Pages
240
Vintage
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
5/5
Profound
Rating
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Reader feel
Emotional depth10
Grief Intensity10
Prose9
Narration9
Psychological Insight9
Pacing6
Plot twists2
Worldbuilding1
My journey
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