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Published by HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 000721684XISBN 13: 9780007216840
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. From one of Americas 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. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later the night before New Years 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 illnessabout marriage and children and memoryabout the shallowness of sanity, about life itself. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Fourth Estate, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 000721684XISBN 13: 9780007216840
Seller: Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd, Rochester, KENT, United Kingdom
Book
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 227pp; minor edge , blue spine, title in white Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Fourth Estate, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 000721684XISBN 13: 9780007216840
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing (2005). 227pp. Near Fine/Near Fine copy, now preserved in mylar jacket protector.