The year of magical thinking
(Book)
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Published
New York : Knopf, 2005.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Status
Port Angeles - Biography
BIO DIDION DIDION
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Didion, Joan -- Family.
Didion, Joan -- Marriage.
Didion, Joan.
Dunne, John Gregory, -- 1932-2003 -- Death and burial.
Grief.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Widows -- United States -- Biography.
Didion, Joan -- Marriage.
Didion, Joan.
Dunne, John Gregory, -- 1932-2003 -- Death and burial.
Grief.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Widows -- United States -- Biography.
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Published
New York : Knopf, 2005.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
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""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal coronary. The two had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years. The weeks and months that followed "cut loose any fixed idea I had about death, about illness, about probability and luck-- about marriage and children and memory-- about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." In The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience. Her portrait of a marriage-- and a life, in good times and bad-- will speak directly to anyone who has ever loved a husband, a wife, or a child" -- from publisher's web site.