The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Joan Didion explores…
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The Year of Magical Thinking
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Joan Didion 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.
In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. 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. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through.
Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and