![]() Didion reports many instances of her own magical thinking, particularly the story in which she cannot give away Dunne's shoes, as he would need them when he returned. The title of the book refers to magical thinking in the anthropological sense, thinking that if a person hopes for something enough or performs the right actions then an unavoidable event can be averted. Didion also incorporates medical and psychological research on grief and illness into the book. With each replay of the event, the focus on certain emotional and physical aspects of the experience shifts. The book follows Didion's reliving and reanalysis of her husband's death throughout the year following it, in addition to caring for Quintana. She had returned to Malibu, her childhood home, after learning of her father's death. During 2004 Quintana was again hospitalized after she fell and hit her head disembarking from a plane at LAX. Days before his death, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne Michael was hospitalized in New York with pneumonia which developed into septic shock she was still unconscious when her father died. The book recounts Didion's experiences of grief after Dunne's 2003 death. It won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction Īnd was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Published by Knopf in October 2005, The Year of Magical Thinking was immediately acclaimed as a classic book about mourning. ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:869830392 Scandate 20100817201659 Scanner Year of Magical Thinking (2005), by Joan Didion (1934–2021), is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003). ![]() OL500181W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 65.45 Pages 248 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0739327798 OL23240168M Openlibrary_subject long_now_manual_for_civilization Openlibrary_work about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." -Dust jacketĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:07:59 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA124514 Boxid_2 CH102501 Camera Canon 5D City New York Containerid_2 X0001 DonorĪlibris Edition 1. 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. 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. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. 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. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. 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. 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.
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