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O ano do pensamento mágico
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É assim que Joan Didion inicia a sua viagem pela memória do ano mais transformador da sua vida, começando na noite em que o marido, o escritor John Dunne, com quem foi casada mais de 30 anos, morre de ataque cardíaco, e a sua única filha está em coma no hospital. Com uma escrita tão assertiva como limpa, tão honesta como desarmante, Didion investiga os vivos que sobrevivem aos mortos, revelando, através da sua experiência pessoal, aquilo que é universal a todos: a dor da perda, a necessidade da superação quando tudo parece inútil.
Num registo por vezes jornalístico, recorrendo a estudos, especialistas ou a poemas e obras de arte, outras vezes confessional e literário, mas escapando da autopiedade, Didion deixa o ¿uxo da sua consciência viajar pelas memórias do casamento, pela experiência da maternidade e da escrita, recordações que emergem a cada momento, quando trata do funeral do marido ou visita a ¿lha inconsciente no hospital.
Num registo por vezes jornalístico, recorrendo a estudos, especialistas ou a poemas e obras de arte, outras vezes confessional e literário, mas escapando da autopiedade, Didion deixa o ¿uxo da sua consciência viajar pelas memórias do casamento, pela experiência da maternidade e da escrita, recordações que emergem a cada momento, quando trata do funeral do marido ou visita a ¿lha inconsciente no hospital.
224 pages, Paperback
First published September 1,2005
This edition
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224 pages, Paperback
- Published
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May 24, 2006 by Nova Fronteira
- ISBN
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9788520918869
- ASIN
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8520918867
- Language
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Portuguese
About the author
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Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.
Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Over the course of her career, Didion wrote essays for many magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Esquire, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, and the history and culture of California. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s often concentrated on the subtext of political rhetoric and the United States's foreign policy in Latin America. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. She later adapted the book into a play that premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by president Barack Obama. Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, in 2017.
Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Over the course of her career, Didion wrote essays for many magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Esquire, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, and the history and culture of California. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s often concentrated on the subtext of political rhetoric and the United States's foreign policy in Latin America. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. She later adapted the book into a play that premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by president Barack Obama. Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, in 2017.
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