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The Year of Magical Thinking
By (author) Joan Didion
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Price: R 531.95
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'The Year of Magical Thinking' is one of five classic Fourth Estate books to be released as numbered, collectable editions to mark the 25th anniversary. The books will be beautifully produced hardbacks, limited to 2000 copies each, with jackets designed by some of the finest artists at work today. 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'.
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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 30 Apr 2009
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 240
Dimensions | 222 x 141 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 420g
ISBN | 978-0-0073-0882-8
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BISAC | literary criticism / american / general
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