Description
A first edition, first printing of The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, published by Fourth Estate, London in 2005. A fine copy free from inscriptions, in a near fine unclipped wrapper, a little pushing to the heel of the spine, a vertical crease to the upper edge of the front panel.
Published in 2005, The Year of Magical Thinking is Joan Didion’s memoir of grief following the sudden death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, while their daughter Quintana lay ill. Revisiting the year that followed, Didion examines memory, marriage, illness and bereavement, including the irrational belief that the dead might return. Her cool, exacting prose gives extraordinary clarity to overwhelming loss. Acclaimed as a modern classic, the book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
