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.”
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.
牵手几十年的老伴先行一步,唯一的爱女身染重病,曾经的幸福让主人公无法专注于最后的人生之旅,在回望和记录家庭琐事中获得安宁。 相同的命运和写作背景让很多人以为,美国琼·狄迪恩的《充满奇想的一年》和杨绛的《我们仨》是悼念亡者的姊妹篇。事实上,前者更着力于...
评分当初买下它,也是因为看了《三联生活周刊》的一篇书评介绍。本书开头的那段文字,打动了我:“生活改变很快。生活瞬间改变。你坐下来吃饭,而你熟知的生活结束了。” 作者是位美国著名的女作家。就在她的女儿因流感病情加剧而住院后五天,丈夫却因为心脏病突发而意外身亡。而...
评分我们常常讨论的死亡,往往是别人的死亡,而自己的时间、生命却从别人的死亡中断裂开来。那些对你来说至关重要的人,把你的生活分割成了拥有他或者失去他两部分,你清晰的记得这个时间断点前后每一件无关紧要的小事,并赋予它独有的意义,但没有人可以轻易接受那个事实。那些微...
评分 评分Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn, 婚姻,让另外一个人先读你的稿子,让他签名,file,电报出去;和他做在餐桌前列清单,列到一半出去吃饭,hearty得像是在庆功;早上醒来想要跟他讲昨晚的坏梦——为了cleanse,他摆摆手说不要听,但...
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.
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评分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.
评分Acquisition of information and self-analysis would go a long way, but actully one can not get through of the pain and loss, just day by day live with it.
评分A book about loss and grief. Too sad.
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