Book Description     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.          "Her book is thrilling...a living, sharp, memorable book...An exact, candid, and penetrating account of personal terror and bereavement...sometimes quite funny because it dares to tell the truth."     -----Robert Pinsky, The New York Times Book Review          "An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief...It also skips backward in time [to] call up a shimmering portrait of her unique marriage...To make her grief real, Didion shows us what she has los."     -----Lev Grossman, Time          "I can't think of a book we need more than hers...I can't imagine dying without this book."     -----John Leonard, New York Review of Books          "Achingly beautiful...We have come to admire and love Didion for her preternatural poise, unrival eye for absurdity, and Orwellian distaste for cant. It is thus a difficult, moving, and extraordinarily poignant experience to watch her direct such scrutiny inward."     -----Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Los Angeles Times          Book Dimension     length: (cm)20.3 width:(cm)13.2