From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion 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.
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Explains a Magical Marriage:
While reading Joan Didion's memoir, which is centered on John Gregory Dunne's sudden death, my immediate reaction was that the appreciative audience is limited. Further reading proved me wrong. Like with me, the book will resonate with those who have absorbed the grief caused by unexpectedly losing a beloved and feeling the interminable leak of that profound loss. And, because Didion infuses the book with other well known literati and the celebrity haunts where they meet, there is a lot of interesting... more info
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Terrific memoir, painting a picture of grief and loss:
I thought Ms. Didion's description of the feelings, sounds, emotions that we experience when we've had a tragic loss were astonishingly accurate. When faced with great tragedy and grief, it is remarkable that we can even get out of bed in the morning.
So Beautiful:
I've read this book a couple of times now and I am certain I will revisit it every couple of years because it is amazingly well written and emotionally so real. I read a few of the negative reviews of this book and was kind of mystified by them, the main criticism is that segments of the book are disjointed and draft-like, but that is actually partly the point of the book. This element reflects how loss of this magnitude jars human thoughts and behavior; in this case, how it forced a pattern of repetitive... more info
