Author: Joan Didion
Translator: Eun-seon Lee
Publisher: Sigongsa
H/C | 288 pages | 210*148mm
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About This Book
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric
honesty and passion. Joan Didion 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 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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