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Also by Joan Didion:

Blue Nights, November 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
The Year of Magical Thinking, February 2007
Paperback (reprint)
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, October 2006
Hardcover
Play It As It Lays, November 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
The Year of Magical Thinking, October 2005
Hardcover
Vintage Didion, January 2004
Trade Size (reprint)
Where I Was From, September 2003
Hardcover
Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11, June 2003
Paperback
Political Fictions, August 2002
Trade Size
A Book of Common Prayer, April 1995
Trade Size (reprint)
Democracy, April 1995
Trade Size

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
By: Joan Didion

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...

Knopf
October 2005
Featuring: John Gregory Dunne; Joan Didion; Quintana Roo
240 pages
ISBN: 140004314X
Hardcover
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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, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center 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.”

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