{"product_id":"the-year-of-magical-thinking","title":"The Year of Magical Thinking","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom 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. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFour 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’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnerseu.com\/Search?Publisher=HarperCollins%20Publishers\u0026amp;fq=14120\"\u003eHarperCollins Publishers\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished: UK, 2006\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages: 240\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage: English \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN:\u003c\/span\u003e9780007216857\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joan Didion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56489185345867,"sku":null,"price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9780007216857.jpg?v=1770659300","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/the-year-of-magical-thinking","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}