{"product_id":"the-year-of-magical-thinking-9781400043149","title":"The Year of Magical Thinking","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - From one of America's iconic writers and the author of \u003ci\u003eNotes to John\u003c\/i\u003e, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - A \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeveral 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joan Didion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.32h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400043149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e 2005 National Book Awards Winner - Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee - Autobiography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e 2006 Quill Awards Nominee - Biography\/Memoir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e 2005 Books for a Better Life Finalist - Inspirational Memoir","brand":"Ripon Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44146839683117,"sku":"9781400043149","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/0501\/1245\/files\/img_5f5f7fd0-16c1-491e-94e5-24602a6f70b6.jpg?v=1757180001","url":"https:\/\/riponbookstore.com\/products\/the-year-of-magical-thinking-9781400043149","provider":"Ripon Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}