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The year of magical thinking
- Title
- The year of magical thinking / Joan Didion.
- Author
- Didion, Joan
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
- Supplementary Content
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 05-12800 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- 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
- Widows > United States > Biography
- Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 > Death and burial
- Mothers and daughters > United States
- Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography
- Grief
- Loss (Psychology)
- Didion, Joan > Family
- Novelists, American > 20th century > Family relationships
- Didion, Joan > Marriage
- Journalists > United States > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Awards (note)
- National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2005.
- Call Number
- JFD 05-12800
- ISBN
- 140004314X
- 9781400043149
- LCCN
- 2005045132
- OCLC
- 58563131
- Author
- Didion, Joan, author.
- Title
- The year of magical thinking / Joan Didion.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
- WomenCaliforniansNew Yorkers (New York State)
- Awards
- National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2005.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Didion, Joan. Year of magical thinking. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, ©2005 (OCoLC)607591267
- Research Call Number
- JFD 05-12800