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order placed - the year of magical thinking by joan didion
12/16/2005 @ 4:14:59 PM | 1070 days ago | permanent link | posted in book / shopping
 I first heard of author Joan Didion on Charlie Rose a few weeks ago, her latest novel deals with the sudden passing of her husband and it's topping many best books of 2005 lists. I'm planning to do a lot of reading, not necessarily by choice but it ain't too bad. I placed the order on Amazon and it should arrive next week, lookin forward to itVillage Voice The writer who famously cut to passages from her psychiatric report here splices in her husband's autopsy and her daughter's CT scan. Didion has always been obsessed with disjunction—narrative breakdown, the erasure of meaning—and is never more lucid than when she realizes the impossibility of clarity. By awful necessity, this memoir sees a further refinement of the Didion style: the incantatory echoes, the tidal italics, the pitch-perfect use of crescendo and staccato. Facts are her talismans, and The Year of Magical Thinking is a survivor's manual that understands all too well the limits of its usefulness.  The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Update Received my book 12/20, go Amazon Prime    Links - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/140004314X/kewlio-20 - book review - Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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