About “The Year of Magical Thinking”
The Year of Magical Thinking is a memoir by Joan Didion that details the year following the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in 2003. Published by Knopf in October 2005, the book was praised as a classic work on grief and won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. In 2024, The New York Times Book Review ranked it as the 12th best book of the 21st century. The book was adapted into a play in 2007. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 2005