--- product_id: 301439718 title: "The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner (Vintage International)" brand: "joan didion" price: "38376CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/301439718-the-year-of-magical-thinking-national-book-award-winner-vintage store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # National Book Award Winner NYT Bestseller & Critically Acclaimed 40 Years of Marriage Explored The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner (Vintage International) **Brand:** joan didion **Price:** 38376CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Dive into the year that changed everything — a masterclass in love, loss, and survival. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner (Vintage International) by joan didion - **How much does it cost?** 38376CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/301439718-the-year-of-magical-thinking-national-book-award-winner-vintage) ## Best For - joan didion enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted joan didion brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Unflinching Honesty in Every Page:** Joan Didion’s raw, electric prose captures the complexity of love and mourning. - • **A Beacon for Those Navigating Loss:** Offers solace and understanding for anyone grappling with grief and resilience. - • **A National Treasure of Grief Literature:** Award-winning narrative that redefines loss and survival. - • **Timeless Insight on Marriage and Memory:** A 40-year partnership laid bare with profound emotional clarity. - • **Critically Acclaimed & Widely Celebrated:** One of the 21st century’s most essential reads, recognized by The New York Times and The Guardian. ## Overview The Year of Magical Thinking is Joan Didion’s National Book Award-winning memoir that chronicles the devastating year following her husband’s sudden death. Celebrated as one of the 21st century’s most powerful explorations of grief, marriage, and memory, this critically acclaimed bestseller offers an unvarnished, deeply personal look at loss and the human will to survive. ## Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America's most iconic writers One of The New York Times 's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - One of The Guardian 's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Joan Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved and lost a husband or wife or child. In a work of electric honesty and passion, Didion explores how we all, somehow, will ourselves to survive. "An utterly shattering portrait of loss and grief." -The New York Times S everal days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana Roo, fall ill with septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later, the Dunnes were sitting down to dinner after visiting their daughter in the hospital when John suffered a fatal heart attack. In that one moment, their partnership of forty years came to an end. This powerful narrative 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." "Didion has transformed grief into literature." --The Guardian ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Dimensions | 13.18 x 1.45 x 20.32 cm | | Edition | Reprint | | Isbn 10 | 1400078431 | | Isbn 13 | 978-1400078431 | | Item Weight | 249 g | | Language | English | | Print Length | 240 pages | | Publication Date | 13 Feb. 2007 | | Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | ## Images ![The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner (Vintage International) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61ZvkcWI1XL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Touchingly beautiful and achingly perceptive. *by on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 18 August 2026* A privilege to share the innermost thoughts and perceptions of Joan Didion as she navigates her way through the first year of her widowhood.I found much to identify with.Magical indeed. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gripping *by on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 1 February 2024* I had no intention to buy or read this book. It popped up on screen at a reduced price through Bookbub. I'd heard of the author's name and reputation so I just looked at the first few pages in the preview and...And that was that.Hooked. Book bought. Book read straight away, leaving other books-in-progress on the shelf. The author treads the narrow line of self-indulgence while she just lets rip about her mental state after the sudden deathof her husband and the serious illness of their daughter. The book is quietly moving. Another reviewer here has said devastating and they're right. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Outstanding *by on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 15 June 2009* Didion gives us the privilege of spending a year with her. A year in which her husband dies of a massive heart attack at the table as they sit down for dinner, and a year in which her only child hangs onto life by a thread in intensive care suffering from one potentially fatal illness after another.Didion's prose is always lucid, but here the crisp journalistic approach to her subject is muted by her personal odyssey, her frantic need to try to understand and get to grips with events and feelings that are not as easily pinned down or understood as the hard facts and figures she reads and writes about, trying to give herself something to use as an anchor point in her rapidly disintegrating life.Other reviewers have commented on her lack of warmth, her obsessive compulsion to log the minutiae of the days that follow her husband's death and suggested that this means that she is cold. Far from it in my opinion. At the beginning of the book she talks about the strange split in one's psyche when someone close to you dies, the feeling that the world has shattered apart and will never be the same again. Yet at the same time one is obliged to continue living life as if unaffected because our modern sensibilities do not allow for outpourings of raw grief. Then there is the fact that even if we grieve more ostentatiously, the world with all its drab little facts continues turning whether we like it or not.Didion walks the tightrope between a grief so profound that she dare not throw away her husband's shoes in case he comes back and needs them, and the fact that she has to be present in the world for her daughter. She clings to the pragmatic, to the facts, like a drowning woman grabbing a life raft. Her prose is exquisite, much like her pain. An astonishing book. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner - Blue Nights: A Memoir - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/301439718-the-year-of-magical-thinking-national-book-award-winner-vintage](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/301439718-the-year-of-magical-thinking-national-book-award-winner-vintage) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-10-15*