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.
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.”
發表於2024-04-28
The Year of Magical Thinking 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
這是她和自己心靈對話的記錄。在經曆喪夫、女兒病危等能讓一個女人完全崩潰的傢庭變故時,她把一切寫瞭下來。哀傷、誠摯。四十年共同生活的片斷迴憶,細膩而滿懷溫情:哀悼的同時還有許多對於生命的思考,關於死亡疾病,關於幸與不幸,關於婚姻、孩子和記憶,關於悲傷,以及生...
評分“原來在悲傷開始之前,我們沒有人會知道它是怎麼樣的。” 我們還在生命的途中,卻要麵對死亡。瓊·狄迪恩的這本悼亡之作,在美國本土剛齣版就得到一片贊譽,與中國傳統的悼亡詩文不同的是,作者並非在抒情和懷念中過度地拔高瞭哀悼對象的崇高性,而是選擇瞭更為精緻和奇特的寫...
評分瓊·迪迪安(Joan Didion)的《奇想之年》。 2003年聖誕節期間,迪迪安的獨生女因不明原因陷入昏迷,幾天後,丈夫又心髒病猝發死亡,她看似堅強冷靜地安排後事,其實內心已陷入狂亂的奇想世界。 包括硃天文、吳念真、季季、張曉風、陳文茜、傅月庵、黃春明、詹宏誌、駱以軍...
評分當初買下它,也是因為看瞭《三聯生活周刊》的一篇書評介紹。本書開頭的那段文字,打動瞭我:“生活改變很快。生活瞬間改變。你坐下來吃飯,而你熟知的生活結束瞭。” 作者是位美國著名的女作傢。就在她的女兒因流感病情加劇而住院後五天,丈夫卻因為心髒病突發而意外身亡。而...
評分這是她和自己心靈對話的記錄。在經曆喪夫、女兒病危等能讓一個女人完全崩潰的傢庭變故時,她把一切寫瞭下來。哀傷、誠摯。四十年共同生活的片斷迴憶,細膩而滿懷溫情:哀悼的同時還有許多對於生命的思考,關於死亡疾病,關於幸與不幸,關於婚姻、孩子和記憶,關於悲傷,以及生...
圖書標籤: JoanDidion 美國 死亡 美國文學 英文原版 文學 外國文學 英文
Joan Didion丈夫心髒病突發去世之後一年的迴憶錄,對自己的grief的細膩描述和冷靜分析,再加上女兒重病,無力感和不真實感;看瞭大半的時候,和朋友聊天說“想一想人生的大悲大慟,還都在前麵等著呢”
評分A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
評分看得憋屈死,不斷自我剖析的文風在米國人裏很少見麼……把自己的非正常精神狀態解剖瞭讓讀者分擔我真的欣賞不來啊
評分文獻綜述文風
評分這書太矯情瞭,喪夫之痛轉換成事無巨細地記敘與丈夫生活四十年來之事,還不斷穿擦老太細讀各大科學研究及心靈雞湯式慰藉之片段。哪怕傷痛初時,總愛迴憶瑣屑往事,每日過得失魂落魄,其實結尾還不是應瞭那句老話,時間會淡忘一切的!
The Year of Magical Thinking 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載