The year of magical thinking
Didion, Joan2006
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Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic 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 suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of 40 years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LA airport, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Centre to relieve a massive hematoma.This is Didion's attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea she ever had about death, about illness, marriage and children and memory.
Main title:
The year of magical thinking / Joan Didion.
Author:
Imprint:
London ; Sydney : Harper Perennial, 2006, c2005.
Collation:
227 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
First published in Britain by Fourth Estate, 2005.
ISBN:
9780007216857 (pbk)0007216858 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54B/DID
Language:
English
Subject:
Didion, JoanDunne, John Gregory, 1932- -- Death and burialDidion, Joan -- MarriageDidion, Joan -- FamilyNovelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationshipsNovelists, American -- 20th century -- BiographyJournalists -- United States -- BiographyMothers and daughters -- United StatesWidows -- United States -- BiographyLoss (Psychology)Grief
BRN:
168172