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 Add to Wish List
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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