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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Paperback, 2006)
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She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Lisa O'Kelly, Observer 'Searing, informative and affecting. Don't leave life without it.'.
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From one of America's iconic writers, 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. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion. 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 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'. The result is an exploration of an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage, and a life, in good times and bad.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780007216857
eBay Product ID (ePID)92013228
Product Key Features
Publication Year2006
Book TitleThe Year of Magical Thinking
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiographies & True Stories
AuthorJoan Didion
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight170 g
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJoan Didion
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- 12 Sep, 2019
A resonant highly articulate book about learning to live with loss
This book is a beautifully written book about grief and loss. I have recommended it to friends as a must read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 17 Nov, 2023
Very apt as it is truly magical
It’s the most thought provoking book on understanding the human mind when it comes to grief .Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 05 Jan, 2023
Fantastic
Amazing storyVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 04 Apr, 2018
Wonderful!
Excellent writing - inspirational!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 13 Jan, 2021
sensitive read
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