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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Abstract
On December 25, 2003, Quintana Dunne, the twenty-five-year-old daughter of the novelist and essayist Joan Didion, was admitted into a New York hospital with an infection that sent her into life-threatening septic shock. Five days later, soon after returning from visiting Quintana at the intensive-care unit, Didion’s seventy-year-old husband, the novelist John Gregory Dunne, collapsed at the dinner table and died, most likely instantaneously. The two had been married for 40 years. The death came as a complete shock to Didion—although it soon emerged that Dunne had been aware of the deteriorated condition of his main coronary artery for years.
About the Author
Sam Schulman reviewed God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens in our June issue. He is the publishing director of The American.
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