The Year of Magical Thinking

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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.

subjects: Dunne, john gregory, 1932-2003,  Grief,  Journalists, biography,  Loss (psychology),  Mothers and daughters,  Widows,  Authors, biography,  American Novelists,  Biography,  Death and burial,  Drama,  Family,  Family relationships,  Fiction,  Journalists,  Marriage,  National Book Award Winner,  award:national_book_award=2005,  award:national_book_award=nonfiction,  Life Change Events,  Attitude to Death,  Rouw,  Ehe,  Family Relations,  Family Health,  Verlies (psychologie),  Familie,  Long Now Manual for Civilization,  Critically ill,  Women journalists,  Mothers,  Families,  Authors, american,  Journalists, united states,  Large type books,  New York Times reviewed,  American drama (dramatic works by one author),  nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2022-01-16,  New York Times bestseller,  Medical,  General,  American Women novelists,  Mort et sépultre,  Mariage,  Famille,  Romancières américaines,  Relations familiales,  Biographies,  Journalistes,  Mères et filles,  Veuves,  Perte (Psychologie),  Chagrin,  Romanciers américains

People: Joan Didion,  John Gregory Dunne (1932-),  John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003),  John Gregory Dunne

Places: United States,  États-Unis

Times: 20th century,  20e siècle