The year of magical thinking
(Pre-loaded Audio)

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Contributors
Caruso, Barbara, narrator.
Published
[Place of publication not identified] : HighBridge, [2005].
ISBN
1598955365, 9781598955361
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Homewood Public Library District - StacksDIGITAL BOOK 813.54 DIDOn Shelf
Itasca Community Library - Adult AVPLAYWAY B DIDIONOn Shelf

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Published
[Place of publication not identified] : HighBridge, [2005].
Format
Pre-loaded Audio
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (5.25 hr.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
ISBN
1598955365, 9781598955361

Notes

General Note
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
General Note
In container with earphones and AAA battery.
General Note
Accompanying material may vary.
Participants/Performers
Read by Barbara Caruso.
Description
[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.
System Details
Playaway Digital Audio.
Local note
PLAYAWAY

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Didion, J., & Caruso, B. (2005). The year of magical thinking . HighBridge.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Didion, Joan and Barbara, Caruso. 2005. The Year of Magical Thinking. HighBridge.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Didion, Joan and Barbara, Caruso. The Year of Magical Thinking HighBridge, 2005.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Didion, Joan., and Barbara Caruso. The Year of Magical Thinking HighBridge, 2005.

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