Year of Magical Thinking, The
About this book
"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
- american drama (dramatic works by one author)
- american novelists
- american women novelists
- attitude to death
- authors, american
- authors, biography
- award:national_book_award=2005
- award:national_book_award=nonfiction
- biographies
- biography
- critically ill
- death and burial
- drama
- dunne, john gregory, 1932-2003
- ehe
- familie
- families
- famille
- family
- family health
- family relations
- family relationships
- fiction
- general
- grief
- journalistes
- journalists
- journalists, biography
- journalists, united states
- large type books
- life change events
- long now manual for civilization
- loss (psychology)
- mariage
- marriage
- medical
- mères et filles
- mort et sépultre
- mothers
- mothers and daughters
- national book award winner
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2022-01-16
- relations familiales
- romancières américaines
- rouw
- verlies (psychologie)
- widows
- women journalists