The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking

2005 • 5h 1m

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"this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you . . ."In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called "an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage), 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.The first theatrical production of The Year of Magical Thinking opened at the Booth Theatre on March 29, 2007, starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by David Hare.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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“Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time”

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A devastating, but exquisitely written account of grief in the wake of illness and death. Didion is a master at her craft and this work is a testament to that, and to her love and devotion to her late husband and daughter.

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