The year of magical thinking
(Large Print)
Author:
Published:
New York : Random House Large Print, [2008].
Format:
Large Print
Edition:
1st large print ed.
Physical Desc:
353 pages (large print) ; 21 cm
Status:
Description
[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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Call Number
Status
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Bemis Large Print
LP-B DIDION,J DIDION,J
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Oct 16, 2023
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Didion, Joan -- Family.
Didion, Joan -- Marriage.
Didion, Joan.
Dunne, John Gregory, -- 1932-2003 -- Death and burial.
Grief.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Widows -- United States -- Biography.
Didion, Joan -- Marriage.
Didion, Joan.
Dunne, John Gregory, -- 1932-2003 -- Death and burial.
Grief.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Widows -- United States -- Biography.
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780739327791 (pbk. : large print), 0739327798 (pbk. : large print)
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APA Citation (style guide)
Didion, J. (2008). The year of magical thinking. 1st large print ed. New York, Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Didion, Joan. 2008. The Year of Magical Thinking. New York, Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Didion, Joan, The Year of Magical Thinking. New York, Random House Large Print, 2008.
MLA Citation (style guide)Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. 1st large print ed. New York, Random House Large Print, 2008.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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