{"product_id":"the-year-of-magical-thinking","title":"The Year of Magical Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction 2005\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2006\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography 2005\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of America's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joan Didion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59282419679577,"sku":"9780007216857","price":19.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1069\/9056\/7769\/files\/9780007216857.jpg?v=1788368316","url":"https:\/\/thetwotrickpony.ch\/products\/the-year-of-magical-thinking","provider":"The Two Trick Pony","version":"1.0","type":"link"}