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The Year Of Magical Thinking~Joan DidionšŸ’„BRAND NEW HARDCOVER~Biography~2005

Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā€¢ NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ā€¢ From one of Americaā€™s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriageā€”and a life, in good times and badā€”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 laterā€”the night before New Yearā€™s Eveā€”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 Didionā€™ s attempt to make sense of the ā€œweeks 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. About the Author JOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for Vogue, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion published her first novel, Run River, in 1963. Didionā€™s other novels include A Book of Common Prayer (1977), Democracy (1984), and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996). Didionā€™s first volume of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, was published in 1968, and her second, The White Album, was published in 1979. Her nonfiction works include Salvador (1983), Miami (1987), After Henry (1992), Political Fictions (2001), Where I Was From (2003), We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006), Blue Nights (2011), South and West (2017) and Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021). Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts & Letters Gold Medal in Criticism and Belles Letters. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundationā€™s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A portion of National Book Foundation citation read: "An incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than forty-five years, Didionā€™s distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers and journalists.ā€ In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama, and the PEN Center USAā€™s Lifetime Achievement Award. Didion said of her writing: "I write entirely to find out what Iā€™m thinking, what Iā€™m looking at, what I see and what it means.ā€ She died in December 2021.

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Book Title: The Year Of Magical Thinking

Book Series: Joan Didion

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Intended Audience: Adults

Publication Year: 2005

Type: Novel

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Special Attributes: Hardcover

Author: Joan Didion

Features: Third Printing Before Publication, Dust Jacket

Genre: Family, Parenting & Relations

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Topic: Family Marriage Biography

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