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...ACME” contains despicably wonderful losers such as Rusty Brown, a more realistic and thus more disgusting version of Comic Book Guy; the hapless future citizen in “Tales of Tomorrow;” Chalky White, the good-hearted Midwestern father willfully blinded to his teenaged daughter??s unfocused rage; and Quimby the Mouse, the obscene and ill-tempered doppleganger of the 1920s Mickey Mouse...
...current crisis to contend with and avoid worrying about, on top of grieving for Dunne. These events acquire a new poignancy outside the year Didion chronicles: while the book was in the final stages of editing, Quintana died. Didion explicitly chose not to add an account of her daughter??s death to Magical Thinking. That fact in itself augments Didion’s refusal (in the book) to accept the possibility that Quintana could die, and gives a heartrending overtone of futility to Didion’s fierce maternal desire to protect her. “You?...
Most devastating, however, are the strained familial relationships. In such hard times, one would expect the family to be a source of support. No help comes from Josie’s father, Hank Aimes (Richard Jenkins), who is still angry about his daughter??s pregnancy at 16 and her unfeminine occupation, or her confused mother...
Friday, Oct. 14. “The Year of Magical Thinking.” The prolific writer Joan Didion recounts her husband’s sudden death and her daughter??s extraordinary recovery from a massive blood clot. 6:30 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church St. $3. Tickets can be purchased at Harvard Book Store or by calling...
Instead, the volunteer promised to ferry the family to her home in Iota, La. She was living in her daughter??s apartment in Baton Rouge. “There’s no power but you can all be together,” she said...