From 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. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, then ...
From 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. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic 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 suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of 40 years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LA airport, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Centre 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'. The result is an exploration of an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage, and a life, in good times and bad.
经历了无数次拿起和放下 终于把这本书看完了 time is a school in which we learn 就像the New Yorker评论得那样it’s also a tribute to an extraordinary marriage. 掐指一算坚强的didion女士安好地度过了没有john的19年 祝他们天国团聚吧
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. “I know why we try to keep the dead alive:we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves the...You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. “I know why we try to keep the dead alive:we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”(展开)
「You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.」在等待我revisit它的那一天。you have to feel the swell change.
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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0 有用 知暖 2020-11-05 13:52:51
太棒了。震惊于这本书的语言之平实流畅，感情之深沉婉转。以前总以为用最繁复的语句才能描写最深的感情，原来是我错了。在这本连定语从句都不多见的书里，我感受到了对亡夫最深沉的爱与怀念。
1 有用 cobana 2022-01-10 20:39:06
经历了无数次拿起和放下 终于把这本书看完了 time is a school in which we learn 就像the New Yorker评论得那样it’s also a tribute to an extraordinary marriage. 掐指一算坚强的didion女士安好地度过了没有john的19年 祝他们天国团聚吧
0 有用 总是困的小谭 2024-02-22 19:18:05 澳大利亚
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0 有用 豆豆小丸纸 2023-10-02 22:23:31 江苏
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. “I know why we try to keep the dead alive:we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves the... You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. “I know why we try to keep the dead alive:we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.” (展开)
0 有用 回輈 2022-08-15 09:55:54
「You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.」在等待我revisit它的那一天。you have to feel the swell change.