The year of magical thinking
(Book)
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Published
New York : Vintage International, 2007.
ISBN
9781400078431, 1400078431
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Berwyn Public Library - Stacks | BIOGRAPHY DIDION | On Shelf |
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult | BIOGRAPHY DIDION, J. | On Shelf |
Flossmoor Public Library - Stacks | BIO DIDION | On Shelf |
Forest Park Public Library - Stacks | BIO DIDION | On Shelf |
Hodgkins Public Library District - Stacks | 813 DIDION | On Shelf |
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LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Didion, Joan -- Family.
Didion, Joan -- Marriage.
Didion, Joan.
Dunne, John Gregory, -- 1932-2003 -- Death and burial.
Grief.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Widows -- United States -- Biography.
Biographies.
Didion, Joan -- Family.
Didion, Joan -- Marriage.
Didion, Joan.
Dunne, John Gregory, -- 1932-2003 -- Death and burial.
Grief.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters -- United States.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Widows -- United States -- Biography.
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Published
New York : Vintage International, 2007.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
227 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781400078431, 1400078431
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[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.
Awards
National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2005.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Didion, J. (2007). The year of magical thinking (First Vintage International edition.). Vintage International.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Didion, Joan. 2007. The Year of Magical Thinking. Vintage International.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking Vintage International, 2007.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking First Vintage International edition., Vintage International, 2007.
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