The year of magical thinking / Joan Didion
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TextPublication details: London : 4th Estate, c2005. Description: 227 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780007216857DDC classification: 813.54 DID
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Summary
This is 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.
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