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The Year of Magical Thinking

byJoan Didion, Barbara Caruso

Genres: Nonfiction Biography Memoirs

Who is this book for? Readers interested in personal memoirs, themes of grief and loss, and literary nonfiction.

Topics GriefLossMarriageFamily relationshipsMothers and daughtersWidowhoodLife change eventsAttitude to deathFamily healthJournalistsLoss and GriefFamily

MoodReflective

Female protagonist

From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.

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Published on

01/01/2009

Pages

240

ISBN

9780007318001

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