The year of magical thinking
Didion, Joan2021
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Total copies: 1
John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their daughter fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, then she was placed on life support. Days later, the Dunnes were sitting down to dinner when John suffered a massive and fatal coronary. 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'. The result is a personal yet universal portrait of marriage and life, in good times and bad, from one of the defining voices of American literature.
Main title:
The year of magical thinking / Joan Didion.
Author:
Didion, Joan, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2021.
Collation:
227 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: 2005.
ISBN:
9780008485122 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54B DID
Language:
English
Subject:
Didion, JoanDidion, Joan -- FamilyDidion, Joan -- MarriageDunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 -- Death and burialBereavementNovelists, American -- 20th century -- BiographyWidows -- New York (State) -- New York -- BiographyJournalists -- New York (State) -- New York -- BiographyCritically ill -- New York (State) -- New York -- Family relationshipsBiographyBiography & non-fiction proseBiography: literaryAutobiography: literaryMemoirsSociology: death & dying
BRN:
854468