Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Year of Magical ThinkingCondition: NewDescription: From one of America's iconic writers, 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. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic 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 suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of 40 years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LA airport, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Centre to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful 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’. The result is an exploration of an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage, and a life, in good times and bad.Author: Joan DidionCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBEAN: 9780007216857Format: PaperbackGenre: BiographyISBN: 9780007216857Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Weight: 170gItem Width: 15mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: Fourth Estate LtdRelease Date: 09/04/2006Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Medicine, Personal DevelopmentRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Author: Joan Didion

Book Title: The Year of Magical Thinking

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

EAN: 9780007216857

Format: Paperback

Genre: Biography

ISBN: 9780007216857

Item Height: 198mm

Item Length: 129mm

Item Weight: 170g

Item Width: 15mm

Language: English

Publication Name: The Year of Magical Thinking

Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd

Release Date: 09/04/2006

Release Year: 2006

Title: The Year of Magical Thinking

Topic: Personal Development