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 thei...
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.”
作者简介
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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.
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 betwee... 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.(展开)
原文首发在公众号：新京报书评周刊 “Please help me to die...help me live to die.” 我在一个心理治疗师的学术讨论会上。我们几个人围坐在一起，我们是一个分享的学习小组。我右手对面的的心理治疗师忽然说，她曾有一个来访者来的时候已经93岁了，这个老人坐在咨询室的...
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* Note: This is an assignment essay for the course of 'British and American Essays', edited by the course instructor. -------------- I felt like I had been punched in the stomach reading the dedication page of The Year of Magical Thinking: “This book is f...
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2 有用 cain 2013-03-15 15:16:35
老爷子翻成“随思年”很棒啊
0 有用 Morpheus 2011-11-28 18:41:18
看得憋屈死，不断自我剖析的文风在米国人里很少见么……把自己的非正常精神状态解剖了让读者分担我真的欣赏不来啊
1 有用 Aggie 2013-09-28 22:34:43
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
0 有用 Vickey 2014-07-30 17:54:16
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 betwee... 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. (展开)
1 有用 soupirdujour 2015-05-01 16:53:22
文献综述文风
0 有用 泽不伐夭 2024-06-14 11:42:31 日本
joan didion本人比书精彩得多
0 有用 最美夕阳红 2024-05-14 09:57:00 加拿大
在136 of 226处下定决心放弃。理解作者的很多感触，也能共情，但哀悼是极度私人的情感，超过100页就不得体了。
0 有用 夏天的伞 2024-04-29 22:34:17 浙江
动人，看了60%。
0 有用 辛维木 2024-04-13 21:14:50 上海
关于死亡与哀恸
0 有用 M_eow 2024-03-19 03:52:27 美国
It’s so sad that you need to lose someone to understand this book