bookmate game
en
Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Kitap eklendiğinde bana bildir
Bu kitabı okumak için Bookmate’e EPUB ya da FB2 dosyası yükleyin. Bir kitabı nasıl yüklerim?
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.
Bu kitap şu anda mevcut değil
196 yazdırılmış sayfalar
Yayınlanma yılı
2009
Bunu zaten okudunuz mu? Bunun hakkında ne düşünüyorsunuz?
👍👎

İzlenimler

  • sksrostovbir izlenim paylaşıldı5 yıl önce
    👍Okumaya değer
    🔮Gizli Derinlikler

    Profound and touching.

  • Ellebir izlenim paylaşıldı5 yıl önce
    👍Okumaya değer

    Beautifully captures the poignancy of death and intimate relationships

  • Anya Bapakabir izlenim paylaşıldı6 yıl önce
    💞Bayıldım

    It's incredible how Joan can make intimate and touchy even the reading of medical reports.

Alıntılar

  • Fer Silvaalıntı yaptı6 yıl önce
    Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.
  • Lliaalıntı yaptı8 yıl önce
    Life changes fast.
    Life changes in the instant.
    You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
    The question of self-pity.
    You see how early the question of self-pity entered the picture.
  • dannynicolinialıntı yaptı4 yıl önce
    Life changes fast.
    Life changes in the instant.
    You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
    The question of self-pity

Kitap raflarında

fb2epub
Dosyalarınızı sürükleyin ve bırakın (bir kerede en fazla 5 tane)