A Cool Customer: Joan Didion'S The Year Of Magical Thinking (...Afterwords)

Reflecting on his brother's death from opioid addiction, Jacob Bacharach turns Didion's masterpiece into a blueprint for grief and self-discovery Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Reading Joan Didion's iconic memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, Jacob Bacharach's thoughts are never far from his brother, Nate, who died of an opioid addiction. Although he tries to be a "a cool customer" like Didion, he finds Nate's story breaking through the text, stirring memories of their tight-knit childhood and defying his attempts to find "the truth" about a tragic death. In A COOL CUSTOMER, Bacharach turns The Year of Magical Thinking into a blueprint for grief and self-discovery that anyone can follow. This book is part of a new series from Fiction Advocate called Afterwords. "Bacharach smartly weaves his family story with a literate discussion of Didion's narratives and cultural position to make a snappy and inviting book you could easily read in one sitting."--Rebecca Foster 9780989961585 0989961583 0 BOOK Authors, American NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zBLzswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Jacob Bacharach
• | Publisher: Fiction Advocate
• | Publication Date: Feb 20, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 156 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0989961583
• | ISBN-13: 9780989961585