The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.' 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. Several days before Christmas

More importantly

recounting the heartbreaking journeys of three women in a society where the odds are stacked against them

skill and compassion

These characters are imbued with far more pathos and depth than seems plausible given the stock comic premise — drugged-out

The novel Mishima considered to be one of his best works: a tale of family

Paris: Portrait of a City leads us through what Goethe described as a “universal city where every step upon a bridge or a square recalls a great past

but after its initial spin

song-by-song

Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and the whimsical poetry of "Mr

We of the West Riding (1945

and form part of the group from which the Ariel poems were chosen

Philip Guston