The year of magical thinking
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that 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.One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 YearsSeveral days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later—the night before New Year’s Eve—the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.
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9781400078431
9781598872071
9780307279729
159887005
9781598870053
9781598872071
9780307279729
159887005
9781598870053
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Biography & Autobiography
Didion, Joan
Didion, Joan -- Family
Didion, Joan -- Marriage
Dunne, John Gregory, -- 1932-2003 -- Death and burial
Grief
Journalists -- United States -- Biography
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters -- United States
Nonfiction
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
Self-Improvement
Widows -- United States -- Biography
Didion, Joan
Didion, Joan -- Family
Didion, Joan -- Marriage
Dunne, John Gregory, -- 1932-2003 -- Death and burial
Grief
Journalists -- United States -- Biography
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters -- United States
Nonfiction
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
Self-Improvement
Widows -- United States -- Biography
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