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. 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. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. 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. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support.
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. about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.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.
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.
#THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING ARCHIVE#
Knopf Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor The Arcadia Fund Contributor Internet Archive Language English 1 TITLE, Dunne, John Gregory - 1932-2003 - Death and burial, Novelists, American - 20th century - Family relationships, Novelists, American - 20th century - Biography, Journalists - United States - Biography, Mothers and daughters - United States, Widows - United States - Biography, Loss (Psychology), Grief, Families, Journalists, Marriage, Mothers and daughters, Novelists, American, Novelists, American - Family relationships, Widows, Rouw, Verlies (psychologie), Ehe, Familie, Mothers, United States, Book group discussion kits Publisher New York : Alfred A. NOVELISTS, AMERICAN-20TH century-BIOGRAPHY. DUNNE, JOHN GREGORY, active 1932-DEATH AND BURIAL. Publication date 2005 Topics Didion, Joan, Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 - Death and burial, Didion, Joan - Marriage, Didion, Joan - Family, Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003, Didion, Joan 1934-, Dunne, John Gregory 1932-2003, Dunne, John Gregory, DIDION, JOAN 2 NOVELISTS, AMERICAN-20TH CENTURY-FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS.
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