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In widow's weeds.

Publication: America
Publication Date: 13-FEB-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In widow's weeds.(The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion)(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion Knopf. 240p $23.95 ISBN 140004314X

Joan Didion has been writing books for more than 40 years. When she was introduced at a reading of her newest and most unforgettable book, The Year of Magical Thinking, at a giant Barnes & Noble store in New York last fall, there was a catch in the voice of the teary-eyed woman who hosted the event, as she presented the frail-looking Didion to a standing-room-only audience.

"People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look in their own faces."

Nearly everyone in the crowd was carrying the new book--many held more than one copy--in anticipation of having it autographed, but perhaps mostly of meeting the writer, whose dozen previous books they...

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