The Year of Magical Thinking
In this dramatic adaptation of her memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play. "This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...."
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 2009
- ISBN-13
- 9780307498915
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Grief and lossMarriageDeath and mourning
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(2005)
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(2006)
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