The year of magical thinking, Joan Didion
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The year of magical thinking, Joan Didion
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The year of magical thinking
Oclc number
58563131
Responsibility statement
Joan Didion
Summary
""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal coronary. The two had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 yearsThe weeks and months that followed "cut loose any fixed idea I had about death, about illness, about probability and luck-- about marriage and children and memory-- about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." In The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience. Her portrait of a marriage-- and a life, in good times and bad-- will speak directly to anyone who has ever loved a husband, a wife, or a child" -- from publisher's web site
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- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
- Mothers and daughters
- Didion, Joan -- Marriage
- Marriage
- Didion, Joan -- Family
- Loss (Psychology)
- Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 -- Death and burial
- Widows + Biography
- Didion, Joan
- Grief
- Journalists -- Biography
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- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
- Mothers and daughters
- Didion, Joan -- Marriage
- Marriage
- Didion, Joan -- Family
- Loss (Psychology)
- Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 -- Death and burial
- Widows + Biography
- Didion, Joan
- Grief
- Journalists -- Biography
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