TY - SOUND N2 - 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." AB - 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." T1 - The year of magical thinking DA - p2005. CY - Minneapolis, Minn. : AU - Didion, Joan. AU - Caruso, Barbara. CN - PS3554.I33 CN - PS3554.I33 PB - HighBridge, PP - Minneapolis, Minn. : PY - p2005. N1 - Unabridged. N1 - Compact discs. ID - 303453 KW - Novelists, American KW - Novelists, American KW - Journalists KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Widows KW - Loss (Psychology) KW - Grief. SN - 159887005X TI - The year of magical thinking ER -