-
Description
-
Details
-
Reviews
One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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.
Kindle Book
- Release date: February 13, 2007
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780307279729
- Release date: February 13, 2007
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780307279729
- File size: 1394 KB
- Release date: February 13, 2007
PDF ebook
- ISBN: 9780307279729
- File size: 686 KB
- Release date: February 13, 2007
Loading
Formats
Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
PDF ebook
Languages
English
One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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.
-
Details
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Awards:Kindle Book
Release date: February 13, 2007
OverDrive Read
ISBN: 9780307279729
Release date: February 13, 2007
EPUB ebook
ISBN: 9780307279729
File size: 1394 KB
Release date: February 13, 2007
PDF ebook
ISBN: 9780307279729
File size: 686 KB
Release date: February 13, 2007
-
Creators
- Joan Didion - Author
-
Formats
Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
PDF ebook
-
Languages
English
-
Reviews
Loading
Why is availability limited?
×Availability can change throughout the month based on the library's budget. You can still place a hold on the title, and your hold will be automatically filled as soon as the title is available again.
The Kindle Book format for this title is not supported on:
×Read-along ebook
×The OverDrive Read format of this ebook has professional narration that plays while you read in your browser. Learn more here.