![]() ![]() By “magical thinking,” Didion refers to the ruses of self-deception through which the bereaved seek to shield themselves from grief-being unwilling, for example, to donate a dead husband’s clothes because of the tacit awareness that it would mean acknowledging his final departure. ![]() In the wake of Dunne’s death, Didion found herself unable to accept her loss. ![]() For 40 years, Didion and Dunne shared their lives and work in a marriage of remarkable intimacy and endurance. As her daughter struggled in a New York ICU, Didion’s husband, John Gregory Dunne, suffered a massive heart attack and died on the night of December 30, 2003. In late December 2003, Didion ( Where I Was From, 2003, etc.) saw her daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, hospitalized with a severe case of pneumonia, the lingering effects of which would threaten the young woman’s life for several months to come. A moving record of Didion’s effort to survive the death of her husband and the near-fatal illness of her only daughter. ![]()
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