The year of magical thinking [sound recording] / Joan Didion.
Record details
- ISBN: 159887005X
- Physical Description: 4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: St. Paul, MN : HighBridge, p2005.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Compact disc. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Barbara Caruso. |
Summary, etc.: | ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal coronary. The two had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years. The weeks and months that followed "cut loose any fixed idea I had about death, about illness, about probability and luck-- about marriage and children and memory-- about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." In The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience. Her portrait of a marriage-- and a life, in good times and bad-- will speak directly to anyone who has ever loved a husband, a wife, or a child" -- from publisher's web site. In this intensely personal, deeply moving account, the author exposes the layers and facets of her life over a year of dramatic and unexpected events. Her daughter's serious illness and her husband's sudden death "cut loose any fixed idea I had about death, about illness, about probability and luck ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." An autobiographical portrait of marriage and motherhood by the acclaimed author details her struggle to come to terms with life and death, illness, sanity, personal upheaval, and grief. |
Awards Note: | National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2005. |
Search for related items by subject
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 12 of 12 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | BCD 813.54 [B] Did (Text) | 33160092726929 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | CDBOOK 813.54 DIDION (Text) | 34030105177189 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Deep River Public Library | BCD B Didion (Text) | 36039000616999 | Adult Biography CD | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | CD BIO DIDION Didion (Text) | 31953001603623 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | CDA 813.54 DIDION (Text) | 32518104184570 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | CD 92 DIDION DID (Text) | 33420145125994 | Adult Audio Book | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | 920 DIDION (Text) | 34013076880270 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
New Milford Public Library | CD BOOK B DIDION (Text) | 34021100300470 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Norfolk Library | CD DID (Text) | 36058101159040 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | A-BKCD B DIDION, J (Text)
Note: unabridged
|
34005097898208 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |