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.
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.”
这是她和自己心灵对话的记录。在经历丧夫、女儿病危等能让一个女人完全崩溃的家庭变故时,她把一切写了下来。哀伤、诚挚。四十年共同生活的片断回忆,细腻而满怀温情:哀悼的同时还有许多对于生命的思考,关于死亡疾病,关于幸与不幸,关于婚姻、孩子和记忆,关于悲伤,以及生...
评分牵手几十年的老伴先行一步,唯一的爱女身染重病,曾经的幸福让主人公无法专注于最后的人生之旅,在回望和记录家庭琐事中获得安宁。 相同的命运和写作背景让很多人以为,美国琼·狄迪恩的《充满奇想的一年》和杨绛的《我们仨》是悼念亡者的姊妹篇。事实上,前者更着力于...
评分什么东西是你拼了命去珍惜,却还是留不住的?是亲人的生命。什么事情是你死磕都无法阻挡其发生的?是死别之后的丧恸。-莲花素手 经历过至爱亲人离世的人,也许都有过一种对于死亡的感知,从混沌到拒绝,从避讳到接受,都是一场巨大的心理世界的动荡,用海啸和地震来形容都不为...
评分在她给《生活》杂志写的第一篇专栏里,琼·狄迪恩透露,她和他的丈夫,作家约翰·格雷戈里·邓恩正在檀香山的皇家夏威夷酒店里,准备申请离婚。这时他们已经结婚五年,婚姻正在经历一段严重的危机,邓恩也经常在派对上半开玩笑地对朋友说,这段婚姻就是一周一周的外遇(week-to...
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...
这书太矫情了,丧夫之痛转换成事无巨细地记叙与丈夫生活四十年来之事,还不断穿擦老太细读各大科学研究及心灵鸡汤式慰藉之片段。哪怕伤痛初时,总爱回忆琐屑往事,每日过得失魂落魄,其实结尾还不是应了那句老话,时间会淡忘一切的!
评分近一年来,美国文学里非常热门的一本书,读到1/3都已经要抑郁了。描述生命,i got it. 但是何必叫人这么消极。
评分让我想到了杨绛的《我们仨》...喜欢那段对grief的心理学描述:“波状产生的躯体痛苦,每次持续20分钟到一个小时,感觉喉咙发紧,气短,想叹气,腹部有空感,肌肉乏力,强烈的主体压抑。”
评分For once in your life, let it go. -- Finished reading them on one of the stay-up nights. Couldn't get sleep because of some stupid allergy. It's so damn easy for me to understand the feelings between the words. Feeling like I experience everything with Didion for the long yesteryear. We fall in love and we depart. Thank you for everything.
评分A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
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