UID:
kobvindex_ZLB16314817
Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9781598872071
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9781598872071
Content:
" 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."
Content:
Rezension(1): " JOAN DIDION is celebrated in the worlds of journalism, literature, and film. She is the author of seven previous books of nonfiction and five novels. With her late husband, John Gregory Dunne, she wrote many screenplays including The Panic in Needle Park and A Star Is Born. She lives in New York City." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:Can one call an audio performance ravishing? That's what Barbara Caruso delivers in this perfect marriage of writing and narration. Joan Didion has written an absorbing reflection on the year that followed the death of her husband of 40 years, the author John Gregory Dunne. It was a year in which she grieved while also caring for their severely ill only child, Quintana. In a voice as warm and clear as wildflower honey, Barbara Caruso speaks Didion's words as if they flow straight from her own heart. It's subtly done: a smile in the voice when the line is witty, an intake of breath before pain. Caruso sounds fascinated. And we are engrossed from first word to last. A.C.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, National Book Award Winner 2006 Audie Award Finalist (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine" Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: December 5, 2005 After her husband', fatal heart attack, which came at a time when their daughter Quintana was in intensive care for complications after pneumonia, Didion was labeled ", pretty cool customer",by a social worker because she seemed to be handling these shocks so calmly. Caruso', reading certainly reflects this aspect of Didion', reaction—,ometimes her clear, elegant voice seems downright cold, making the listener wish for a little more emotion. The slightly eerie sounds of bells and cello that swell in at occasional breaks in the narration help in this respect, but mostly the audiobook is as straightforward a production as Didion wanted her life to be in that horrible year. Throughout those months, Didion immersed herself in the literature of grief and quotes frequently from poets and writers who helped her come to terms with her pain. Caruso does a good job with these passages, lingering on and highlighting certain phrases that Didion returns to time and again, shifting their meaning slightly as she progresses. Despite trying to write in an almost clinically detached way, Didion', sorrow and anger do break through at times in the book. Unfortunately, Caruso', cool reserve never cracks, so this audio ends up making less of an impact than the National Book Award–,winning print edition. Simultaneous release with the Knopf hardcover (Reviews, June 27) " Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from June 27, 2005 Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion', venerated, increasingly rare personal essays. The author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem and 11 other works chronicles the year following the death of her husband, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne, from a massive heart attack on December 30, 2003, while the couple', only daughter, Quintana, lay unconscious in a nearby hospital suffering from pneumonia and septic shock. Dunne and Didion had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years, and Dunne', death propelled Didion into a state she calls ",agical thinking.",",e might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss,",she writes. ",e do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return and need his shoes.",Didion', mourning follows a traditional arc—,he describes just how precisely it cleaves to the medical descriptions of grief—,ut her elegant rendition of its stages leads to hard-won insight, particularly into the aftereffects of marriage. ",arriage is not only time: it is also, paradoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John', eyes. I did not age.",In a sense, all of Didion', fiction, with its themes of loss and bereavement, served as preparation for the writing of this memoir, and there is occasionally a curious hint of repetition, despite the immediacy and intimacy of the subject matter. Still, this is an indispensable addition to Didion', body of work and a lyrical, disciplined entry in the annals of mourning literature. Agent, Lynn Nesbit. 60,000 first printing,11-city author tour. "
Note:
Auszeichnungen: Audio Publishers Association:Audie Award Nominee
Language:
English
URL:
https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/126130-TheYearOfMagicalThinking.wma
URL:
https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/126130-TheYearOfMagicalThinking.mp3
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http://voebb.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=EEB14B0E-A4B2-4B55-8AAE-BF2916ACEAE6
Author information:
Didion, Joan
