Books Details
Author : Joan Didion Pages : 227 pages Publisher : Vintage Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 1400078431 ISBN-13 : 9781400078431
Books Descriptions
'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity
allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'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,
