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2024-11-21
The Year of Magical Thinking 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn, 婚姻,讓另外一個人先讀你的稿子,讓他簽名,file,電報齣去;和他做在餐桌前列清單,列到一半齣去吃飯,hearty得像是在慶功;早上醒來想要跟他講昨晚的壞夢——為瞭cleanse,他擺擺手說不要聽,但...
評分什麼東西是你拼瞭命去珍惜,卻還是留不住的?是親人的生命。什麼事情是你死磕都無法阻擋其發生的?是死彆之後的喪慟。-蓮花素手 經曆過至愛親人離世的人,也許都有過一種對於死亡的感知,從混沌到拒絕,從避諱到接受,都是一場巨大的心理世界的動蕩,用海嘯和地震來形容都不為...
評分在她給《生活》雜誌寫的第一篇專欄裏,瓊·狄迪恩透露,她和他的丈夫,作傢約翰·格雷戈裏·鄧恩正在檀香山的皇傢夏威夷酒店裏,準備申請離婚。這時他們已經結婚五年,婚姻正在經曆一段嚴重的危機,鄧恩也經常在派對上半開玩笑地對朋友說,這段婚姻就是一周一周的外遇(week-to...
評分在她給《生活》雜誌寫的第一篇專欄裏,瓊·狄迪恩透露,她和他的丈夫,作傢約翰·格雷戈裏·鄧恩正在檀香山的皇傢夏威夷酒店裏,準備申請離婚。這時他們已經結婚五年,婚姻正在經曆一段嚴重的危機,鄧恩也經常在派對上半開玩笑地對朋友說,這段婚姻就是一周一周的外遇(week-to...
評分生老病死,人之常態。生命的循環,隨著年齡的增長,日漸看淡,但又愈加不捨。新生命的誕生令人欣喜,而舊生命的離去卻讓人傷心。舊生命隻是相對新生命而言,舊,可能是因為來到這世間有些許光陰瞭,生命無常,舊生命不一定是老人,有的可能恰是前一時你還覺著他/她健壯得讓你沒...
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
It was a bad idea to start reading Joan Didion from this book. | Of course you could love more than one person in your life, but marriage is different. Marriage is memory. Marriage is time. | Joan is a good writer after all.
評分For once in your life, let it go. -- Finished reading them on one of the stay-up nights. Couldn't get sleep because of some stupid allergy. It's so damn easy for me to understand the feelings between the words. Feeling like I experience everything with Didion for the long yesteryear. We fall in love and we depart. Thank you for everything.
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!
評分迴憶濃濃
評分Through the trivial recollection of memories, there would be a line of epiphany strikes like thunder.
The Year of Magical Thinking 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載