本書被譽為美國版《我們仨》,是當代深受敬重的小說與散文作家瓊.蒂蒂安垂暮之年的真情告白,不但囊括2005年各大獎,更躍登紐約時報暢銷排行榜第一名。
2003年聖誕節期間,蒂蒂安的獨生女因不明原因陷入昏迷,幾天後,她的丈夫心臟病猝發死亡。她看似堅強冷靜地安排後事,其實內心已陷入狂亂的異想世界…
《奇想之年》除了哀傷動人的回憶外,還有許多對於生命的思考,「關於死,關於疾病,關於死亡的機率和運氣,關於幸與不幸,關於婚姻、孩子和記憶,關於悲傷,關於人們願意或不願意面對死亡…」完全顛覆了固有觀念。本書改編成舞台劇於2005年聖誕節演出時,觀眾含淚起立鼓掌,久久不散…
★本書中文譯本《奇想之年》由遠流出版
本書特色
1)2005年美國國家圖書獎的非小說類獎(the National Book Award for Non-Fiction)得獎作品。
2)2005年《時代雜誌》十大好書。
3)2005年《紐約時報》十大好書。
4)2005年亞馬遜十大好書、編輯選書第一名。
5)2005年美國百老匯改編為舞台劇。
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that 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.
One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturySeveral 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.