The Year of Magical Thinking

By Joan Didion
(Vintage, Paperback, 9781400078431, 240pp.)

Publication Date: February 13, 2007

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Categories: Literary, Personal Memoirs, Women

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Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.

Joan Didion's Where I Was From, Political Fictions, The Last Thing He Wanted, After Henry, Miami, Democracy, Salvador, A Book of Common Prayer, and Run River are available in Vintage paperback.

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