Bibliograph

The year of magical thinking, Joan Didion

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Label

The year of magical thinking, Joan Didion

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The year of magical thinking

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Joan Didion

Summary

From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. 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.

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