Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Year of Magical Thinking
- Winner of the National Book Award 2005
- Publisher:
- Harper Collins Publ. UK, 09/2006
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780007216857
- Item number:
- 5017778
- Volume:
- 227 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2006
- Weight:
- 177 g
- Format:
- 200 x 128 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 4.9.2006
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Short description
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.Blurb
Just before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne's and Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock. She was put into a 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 heart attack. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of 40 years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery. This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of this time of tragedy. 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.
Biography
Joan Didion, geboren 1934 in Sacramento, studierte Literatur in Berkeley und arbeitete als freie Journalistin für zahlreiche große amerikanische Zeitungen. Sie war u. a. Herausgeberin der Vogue und hat vier Romane sowie zahlreiche Essaybände veröffentlicht. 2005 erhielt sie den National Book Award.
