Sinossi
Dicembre 2003. Qualche giorno prima di Natale, gli scrittori John Gregory Dunne e Joan Didion vedono una banale influenza della loro unica figlia Quintana degenerare prima in polmonite, poi in choc settico. Soltanto qualche giorno più tardi, rientrati da una visita alla figlia ancora grave in ospedale, John e Joan siedono a tavola: all'improvviso l'uomo cade a terra e, in pochi minuti, muore d'infarto. "La vita cambia in fretta", scriverà Joan Didion qualche giorno dopo. Per oltre un anno la vita di Joan Didion è stata schiacciata dalla portata di questi due eventi, e questo libro è il resoconto di quell'anno, del tentativo di venire a patti con il modo repentino in cui la sua vita è stata stravolta. Diventa faticoso allora il dialogo tra la realtà e le strategie che si mettono in atto per accettarla: se per sopportare la malattia della figlia studia testi di medicina, si rende insopportabile alle infermiere dell'ospedale e si rivolge ad amici in cerca di numeri di telefono e indirizzi di ottimi medici, allo stesso tempo si rende conto che la morte e la malattia sono eventi che al di là dal suo controllo la lasciano in preda dei suoi ricordi, e si sorprende a pensare come i bambini: "come se i miei pensieri o i miei desideri avessero il potere di rovesciare la storia dei fatti".
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- Pagine: 236
- Data di uscita: 26-01-2017
Recensioni
You might think of me as a cynic. If you’re being kind, that is. I’m the one that says ’Seriously?’ when being told of some tragic event--like someone would actually make up the horrific thing. I’m the one that views the whole process of death--the telling, the grieving, the service of any kind, the Leggi tutto
I hated this book. It is the reason I instituted my "100 pages" policy (if it's not promising 100 pages in, I will no longer waste my time on it). So within the 100 pages I did read, all I got from Didion was that she and her husband used to live a fabulous life and they know a lot of famous people. Leggi tutto
Nobody needs to be told, but it's true what everyone says about this book. It's stunningly beautiful and real. It's the best rendition of what it is to grieve I've ever read. And nobody needs to be told, either, what a loss it is to not have Joan and her writing and her voice with us anymore. But we a Leggi tutto
Hated it, hated it, hated it- but kept reading with the hope that all my pain and suffering would somehow be worth it in the end. It wasn't. The same self-pitying, whiney, depressing, self-important sentiments are basically repeated over and over again only with different words. Joan Didion can obvi Leggi tutto
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I started reading this, I had just known it was Didion's most well known work, but I was kind of caught off guard to find out it was about her husband's death and the simultaneous acute illness of her daughter. I'm not completely sure I know how I felt about th Leggi tutto
'I hadn’t been able to think of food for days, so I had sent Higgins out for an hors d’oeuvres platter from Café Provencal. I was nibbling brie and beluga caviar on the deck, watching the sun set over the New York skyline and wondering how things could get any worse when Higgins brought me the phone Leggi tutto
The Year of Magical Thinking is a transparent, heartrending memoir on grief. This book first came on my radar in James Mustich’s 1,000 Books to Read , but it caught my eye again when I watched the Netflix documentary: Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold . In the documentary, Didion was so articulate t Leggi tutto
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