Unas
memorias conmovedoras sobre la enfermedad y la muerte a traves de la
experiencia personal de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion.Este
libro memorable ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. En el,
la escritora Joan Didion, una de las autoras norteamericanas mas reputadas de
finales del siglo XX, narra con una fascinante distancia emocional la muerte
repentina de su marido, el tambien escritor John Gregory Dunne. Este libro
tan breve como intenso es, por consiguiente, una reflexion sobre el duelo y
la cronica de una supervivencia.

El ano del pensamiento
magico obtuvo el National Book Award en 2005.

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DESCRIPTION

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-that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

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.