From one of America's iconic writers a portrait of a marriage & a life
- in good times & bad
- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child A stunning book of electric honesty & passion Several days before Christmas 2003 John Gregory Dunne & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death about illness about marriage & children & 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 & a life in good times & bad