ISBN: 0307498913 9780307498915

Category: Drama / Women Authors

Page count: 80

<b>In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, 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.<br><br></b>“This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you....” <br><br>Michiko Kakutani in <i>The New York Times </i>called the memoir that was the basis for the play, “an indelible portrait of loss and grief ... a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage."<br><br>The first theatrical production of <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> opened at the Booth Theatre on March 29, 2007, starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by David Hare.