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By Joan Didion. 227 pp. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. $23.95. ISBN 1-4000-4314-X.

In this devastating anatomy lesson on loss, which received a 2005 National Book Award, respected essayist Joan Didion skillfully dissects her struggle with the denial, pain, and rage that followed the sudden death of her husband of nearly 40 years, writer John Gregory Dunne, and the protracted illness of their daughter, Quintana Roo. The events are cruel. Five days after Quintana was admitted on Christmas night to an intensive care unit (ICU) in a New York City hospital because of pneumonia that rapidly progressed to sepsis, Didion sat down to dinner with Dunne and saw him suffer a massive myocardial . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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