--- product_id: 20389217 title: "The Year of Magical Thinking" brand: "joan didion" price: "₱2159" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/20389217-the-year-of-magical-thinking store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # The Year of Magical Thinking **Brand:** joan didion **Price:** ₱2159 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Year of Magical Thinking by joan didion - **How much does it cost?** ₱2159 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/20389217-the-year-of-magical-thinking) ## 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 ## Description The Year of Magical Thinking ## Images ![The Year of Magical Thinking - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/816KswqO3OL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars A truly heartfelt account of the first year of life after loosing your spouse/partner. *by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2024* I lost my sweetheart, best friend, husband earlier this summer. This was the first book I read/listened to and it was so helpful in helping me understand some of my thoughts and feelings. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars "UNTIL THE MORNING. WHEN I WAKE UP AND HE STILL ISN'T HERE." *by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2015* These lines first appeared in Joan Didion's memoir of the same title. They migrated to the play version, which is ... moving ... emotionally devastating ... honest and human.Lynn says she will spend the night.I say no, I’m fine.And I am.Until the morning. When I wake up and he still isn’t there.On December 30, 2003, Joan Didion and her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, had come home from the hospital where they had been keeping vigil over the comatose body of their daughter (step-daughter) Quintana, who was in a coma, fighting off pneumonia and advanced septic shock. They got home in early evening and settled in. John was reading a book about the First World War. He had a drink, asked for a second one. He asked her what she’d given him, said she shouldn’t mix liquors. They were sitting across from each other at the table. He was talking and then he wasn’t. She thought he was pulling a joke on her, said, “Don’t do that.” He slumped over. She moved closer, thinking he was choking on something, and he fell face down on the table and then onto the floor. Dark liquid pooled around his face. He was dead. Just like that. And like happens to us when something like that happens, we find it hard to admit change. Because if we don’t admit it, maybe it didn’t happen. Maybe time can be reversed, even though we know it can’t.Quintana recovered, left the hospital. She spoke at the memorial service for John. That was March 23. Two days later, on the 25th, she flew to California with her husband Gerry to visit Malibu. Joan was happy: she wanted her daughter to feel the Malibu breeze blowing across her face again, “wanted her to be a child again.” That evening a friend called, said he was on the way over to her apartment. Joan thought it was about his wife, who had been ill. It wasn’t. It was Quintana. She had stepped off the plane and collapsed on the runway, concussing herself in the process. Plane flight to California. Quintana back in the hospital. ICU.Messages from the neurosurgeon:“Midline shift.”“Brain pushed to the left side.”“Massive arterial bleed.”“Blood everywhere, like a geyser, no clotting factor.”“One pupil was fixed and the other went as we wheeled her in.”Five weeks later, April 30 (my birthday, by the way), she was stable enough to be transferred. Neurorehabilitation. The Rusk Institute, NYU.My call is behind me.I am taking her home.It might take six weeks, even the whole summer and fall, but she will play tennis again.Except she died. June 2005. Another ICU. This one, Cornell’s. Acute pancreatitis. Septic shock. Dead.I did not want the year after either of them died to end.Didion’s a writer. She processes things through writing, through stepping outside herself and observing how she, not some alien subject, reacts. Reaction filtered through observation. So she wrote a book, a memoir, and then this play. When the play was put on, in 2007, the director was playwright David Hare and the sole actor was Vanessa Redgrave, the one-time wife of Joan’s and John’s longtime friend Tony Richardson. Tony’s and Vanessa’s daughter was Natasha Richardson; she was a longtime friend of Quintana. In the middle of the play’s run, Vanessa received a message: her daughter Tasha had been hospitalized as the result of a freak ski accident. Tasha died. Life replicates fiction in emotionally wrenching ways.The only other text I’ve come across recently with a feeling at all similar to this is Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story (2011), her memoir of the first year of life after the death of her husband. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars A lovely read!!!!! *by L***K on Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2014* I recently lost my husband. So this book was just right for me at this time in my life. I recommend it for anyone in my position.!!! ## Frequently Bought Together - The Year of Magical Thinking - The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner - Blue Nights: A Memoir --- ## 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.ph/products/20389217-the-year-of-magical-thinking](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/20389217-the-year-of-magical-thinking) --- *Product available on Desertcart Philippines* *Store origin: PH* *Last updated: 2026-08-14*