The Year of Magical Thinking (Hardcover)

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 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."""

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2005
First published:	October 2005
Authors:	Joan Didion
Dimensions:	211 x 137 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-4000-4314-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	1-4000-4314-X
Barcode:	9781400043149

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!