The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner by Didion, Joan
The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner by Didion, Joan
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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 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. 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.
Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/13/2007
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.25w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781400078431
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/11/2007 pg. 28
Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/13/2007
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.25w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781400078431
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/11/2007 pg. 28
About the Author
JOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for Vogue, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion published her first novel, Run River, in 1963. Didion's other novels include A Book of Common Prayer (1977), Democracy (1984), and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996).
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