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The year of magical thinking / Joan Didion.
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- ISBN: 9781400078431 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 227 p.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2006.
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| General Note: | National Book Award winner. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 813.54 Didio | 31681010283505 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
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An autobiographical portrait of marriage and motherhood by the acclaimed author details her struggle to come to terms with life and death, illness, sanity, personal upheaval, and grief. - Baker & Taylor
An autobiographical portrait of marriage and motherhood details the critical illness of her daughter, Quintana Roo, followed by the fatal coronary of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter's second bout with a life-threatening ailment, and her struggle to come to terms with life and death, illness, sanity, personal upheaval, and grief. Winner of the National Book Award. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 250,000 first printing. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ⢠A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of Americaâs most iconic writers
One of The New York Timesâs 100 Best Books of the 21st Century ⢠One of The Guardianâs 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Joan Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life â in good times and bad â 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. âAn utterly shattering portrait of loss and grief.â âThe New York Times
Several 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 âattempt 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.â
âDidion has transformed grief into literature.â âThe Guardian
