The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking is a 2005 memoir by Joan Didion, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York in October 2005. It records her grief in the year after the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
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- Knopf, 2005
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- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005
The first edition of The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion was published in New York by Knopf in 2005. We track 2 editions.
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Who published the first edition of The Year of Magical Thinking?
The first edition of The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion was published in New York by Knopf in 2005.
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We track 2 editions of The Year of Magical Thinking, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
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