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.
生老病死,人之常态。生命的循环,随着年龄的增长,日渐看淡,但又愈加不舍。新生命的诞生令人欣喜,而旧生命的离去却让人伤心。旧生命只是相对新生命而言,旧,可能是因为来到这世间有些许光阴了,生命无常,旧生命不一定是老人,有的可能恰是前一时你还觉着他/她健壮得让你没...
评分生老病死,人之常态。生命的循环,随着年龄的增长,日渐看淡,但又愈加不舍。新生命的诞生令人欣喜,而旧生命的离去却让人伤心。旧生命只是相对新生命而言,旧,可能是因为来到这世间有些许光阴了,生命无常,旧生命不一定是老人,有的可能恰是前一时你还觉着他/她健壮得让你没...
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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...
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...
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评分时而把至亲的生命的离去当成科学命题去剖析,又时而闪回到无限次的记忆中,是为努力与挣扎。许多遭遇无法求解,只能在岁月里学会接纳。
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评分“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." “We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”
评分“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." “We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”
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