A Gripping Memoir of a Sudden Loss and the Search for Meaning
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JOAN DIDION was the author of five novels, twelve books of nonfiction, a play, and many screenplays. She was born in California. She died at her home in New York City on December 23, 2021.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 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. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: 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 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? *Notes to John, the remarkable recently discovered journal from Joan Didion is available now*. Seller Inventory # 00110809538
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 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. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: 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 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? *Notes to John, the remarkable recently discovered journal from Joan Didion is available now*. Seller Inventory # CIN0007216858G
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Paperback. Condition: New. 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. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: 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 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'. *Notes to John, the remarkable recently discovered journal from Joan Didion is available now*. Seller Inventory # LU-9780007216857
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