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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.
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  • Publisher description

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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.
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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
Women
Californians
New Yorkers (New York State)
Awards
National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2005.
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Chronological Term
1900-1999
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Online version: Didion, Joan. Year of magical thinking. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, ©2005 (OCoLC)607591267
Research Call Number
JFD 05-12800
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