The Year of Magical Thinking: Winner of the National Book Award 2005

The Year of Magical Thinking: Winner of the National Book Award 2005

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Beschreibung

From one of America's iconic writers, 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. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic 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 suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of 40 years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LA airport, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Centre 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,. The result is an exploration of an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage, and a life, in good times and bad.
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5

and what I want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death

3

"I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let go of them in the water. Knowing this, does not make it easier to let go of him in the water."

5

absolutely brilliant and so so beaufifully written

4

I liked it, but I did not LOVE it. Didion’s writing style is without a doubt remarkable. She has a way with words that not many writers have and manages to put so much meaning into very few pages. And who knows, maybe, in a few decades (hopefully not sooner), when I too, have lost someone I love, I will turn to this again and find solace in her words. For now, it remains a beautiful book, but not one that swept me off my feet.

3

The writing of Didion and her descriptions are very beautiful. However, I am a little bit disappointed which might be on me and listening to the audiobook instead of reading it. The written version might have spoken more to me - not sure.

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