The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking
- Beautiful copy of "second printing before publication" hardcover edition with new dust jacket.
From one of Americaâ€™s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriageâ€“and a life, in good times and badâ€“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 laterâ€“the night before New Yearâ€™s Eveâ€“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 powerful book is Didionâ€™s attempt to make sense of the â€œweeks 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.â€
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Alfred A. Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781400043149
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2005-10-04
UnitCount 1
Format Unabridged
EANs 9781400043149

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Alfred A. Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781400043149
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2005-10-04
UnitCount	1
Format	Unabridged
EANs	9781400043149

The Year of Magical Thinking

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