EAN: 9781400078431

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

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A landmark work about grief  love  and
survival from one of America’s most iconic writers    One of The New York Times ’s 100 Best
Books of the 21st Century • One of The Guardian ’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century   Joan
Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will
speak to anyone who has ever loved and lost a husband or wife or child. In a work of electric
honesty and passion  Didion explores how we all  somehow  will ourselves to survive. “An
utterly shattering portrait of loss and grief.” –The New York Times    S everal days before
Christmas 2003  John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter  Quintana Roo  fall
ill with septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later
the Dunnes were sitting down to dinner after visiting their daughter in the hospital when John
suffered a fatal heart attack. In that one moment  their partnership of forty years came to an
end.   This powerful narrative 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.”   “Didion has transformed grief
into literature.” —The Guardian

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