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The year of magical thinking / Joan Didion.
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." -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400043149
- ISBN: 140004314X
- ISBN: 9780739469675
- ISBN: 0739469673
- ISBN: 9781400078431
- ISBN: 1400078431
- Physical Description: 227 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2005]
- Copyright: ©2005
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| Genre: | Autobiographies. Informational works. |
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- 41 of 43 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Nevada Public Library System.
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- 2 current holds with 43 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Nevada Public Library | B DID (Text) | 32770114503543 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
