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Publisher: Vintage
Author: Joan Didion
ISBN: 9781400078431
Memoir, Non Fiction
The Year of Magical Thinking
by
Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking by
Joan Didion
Reviews
"Stunning candor and piercing details. . . . An indelible portrait of loss and grief."
Michiko Kakutani
Summary
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.
Several 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.
New York Times Bestseller. National Book Award Winner. One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.
