Format:
Book
Author:
Didion, Joan, author.
Title:
The year of magical thinking / Joan Didion.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Description:
227 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary:
[In this book, the author] 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. This ... 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."--Jacket.
Subjects:
Didion, Joan.
Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 -- Death and burial.
Didion, Joan -- Marriage.
Didion, Joan -- Family.
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.
Mothers.
Genre:
Biographies.
Notes:
National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2005.
LCCN:
2005045132
ISBN:
140004314X
9781400043149
0739469673
9780739469675
9781400078431
1400078431
140004314X
Other Number:
58563131
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
1
# Local items:
2
Control Number:
161525
Call Number:
BIO Didion
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
0
# System items in:
0