[lit-ideas] Re: Joan Didion
- From: Dean706@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:24:02 EST
In a message dated 1/18/2006 5:12:58 A.M. Central Standard Time,
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx writes:
This may have been already mentioned and I have simply forgotten -- but has
anyone read The Year Of Magical Thinking? I quite like what I've read of hers,
but haven't picked this one up yet....
Hi Julie:
I was a great fan of Play it as it Lays, her novel of years ago, and I
thought YOMT had much of the same austere desolation about it--I liked and was
moved
by it. But I must say, friends have found the book cold and uninteresting,
so there you go.
Dean
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