{"product_id":"the-year-of-magical-thinking-joan-didion-hardcover","title":"The Year of Magical Thinking -- Joan Didion, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeveral 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joan Didion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.32h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400043149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Quill Awards - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Books for a Better Life - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2005 pg. 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/27\/2005 pg. 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2005 pg. 774\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2005 pg. 1950\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2005 pg. 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2005 pg. 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2005 pg. 64 - Best Of The Best\/Highly Recommended\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/07\/2005 pg. 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/10\/2005 pg. 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/10\/2005 pg. 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/10\/2005 pg. 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/20\/2005 pg. 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/09\/2005 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/02\/2005 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/30\/2005 pg. 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/26\/2005 pg. 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/26\/2005 pg. 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist Editors Choice\/Adult\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2006 pg. 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/25\/2006 pg. 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2007 pg. 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/27\/2008 pg. 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/04\/2009 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/06\/2015 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. 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