The Year of Magical Thinking
[Place of publication not identified] : HighBridge, [2005]
Format: Audiobooks
Description: 1 sound media player (5.25 hr.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.
[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.
Subjects:
Didion, Joan.
Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 -- Death and burial -- Talking books.
Didion, Joan -- Marriage -- Talking books.
Didion, Joan -- Family -- Talking books.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships -- Talking books.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Talking books.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography -- Talking books.
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Talking books.
Widows -- United States -- Biography -- Talking books.
Loss (Psychology) -- Talking books.
Grief -- Talking books.
Didion, Joan.
Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 -- Death and burial -- Talking books.
Didion, Joan -- Marriage -- Talking books.
Didion, Joan -- Family -- Talking books.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships -- Talking books.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Talking books.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography -- Talking books.
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Talking books.
Widows -- United States -- Biography -- Talking books.
Loss (Psychology) -- Talking books.
Grief -- Talking books.
ISBN:
1598955365
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
PLAYAWAY BIOGRAPHY Didion, Joan | Sandhills Indoors | Playaway | In |
PLAYAWAY BIOGRAPHY Didion, Joan | St. Andrews Indoors | Playaway | In |
PLAYAWAY BIOGRAPHY Didion | Southeast | Playaway | Out (Due: 5/28/2024) |
More Formats
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
Accompanying material may vary.
Playaway.
Read by Barbara Caruso.
Playaway Digital Audio.
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2005.
Accompanying material may vary.
Playaway.
Read by Barbara Caruso.
Playaway Digital Audio.
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2005.