The Hudson Review, April 1st, 2007
For Joan Didion, the last couple of years have been a time of professional triumph rooted in personal loss. In December 2003, her husband of forty years, the author John Gregory Dunne, died suddenly of cardiac arrest; in August 2005 their only child, a daughter named Quintana Roo, was felled by pancreatitis after a series of dire illnesses and hospitalizations. Only weeks later, Didion's intimate account of her life as a new widow, The Year of Magical Thinking, appeared; it garnered enthusiastic reviews, became a number-one bestseller, won the National Book Award, and has now been adapted by D...
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