The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She's best known for her novels and her literary journalism.Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.

出版者:Knopf

作者:Joan Didion

页数:227

出版时间:2005-10-11

价格:GBP 13.29

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781400043149

图书标签:JoanDidion美国死亡美国文学英文原版文学外国文学英文

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.”

读后感

先前有“间隔年”，现有美国作家琼•狄迪恩的《奇想之年》，《奇想之年》是琼•狄迪恩为了纪念逝世的爱人而写的一本回忆录，扉页写着献给约翰和金塔纳。 约翰是她共同生活40年的丈夫，于2003年12月30日晚上不幸死于突发性冠心病，一瞬间，琼•狄迪恩说：“就没了”。 2...  

“原来在悲伤开始之前，我们没有人会知道它是怎么样的。” 我们还在生命的途中，却要面对死亡。琼·狄迪恩的这本悼亡之作，在美国本土刚出版就得到一片赞誉，与中国传统的悼亡诗文不同的是，作者并非在抒情和怀念中过度地拔高了哀悼对象的崇高性，而是选择了更为精致和奇特的写...  

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn, 婚姻，让另外一个人先读你的稿子，让他签名，file，电报出去；和他做在餐桌前列清单，列到一半出去吃饭，hearty得像是在庆功；早上醒来想要跟他讲昨晚的坏梦——为了cleanse，他摆摆手说不要听，但...  

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Joan Didion丈夫心脏病突发去世之后一年的回忆录，对自己的grief的细腻描述和冷静分析，再加上女儿重病，无力感和不真实感；看了大半的时候，和朋友聊天说“想一想人生的大悲大恸，还都在前面等着呢”

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