The Year of Magical Thinking

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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Joan Didion
Journalism, Play It as It Lays, screenplays, and memoirs
…death in 2003, she wrote The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), in which she recounts their marriage and mourns her loss. The memoir won a National Book Award, and Didion adapted it for the stage in 2007. Alongside Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, it is one of her…
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…death in 2003, she wrote The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), in which she recounts their marriage and mourns her loss. The memoir won a National Book Award, and Didion adapted it for the stage in 2007. Alongside Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, it is one of her…
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