EAN: 9780007216857

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING - JOAN DIDION KART...

Just before Christmas 2003  John Gregory Dunne's and Joan Didion's only daughter  Quintana 
fell ill. At first they thought it was flu  then pneumonia  then complete sceptic shock. She
was put into a 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 heart attack. In a second  this close  symbiotic partnership of 40 years was
over. Four weeks later  their daughter pulled through. Two months after that  she collapsed and
underwent six hours of brain surgery. This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of
this time of tragedy. 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.

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