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Both books by Joan Didion, hardcover.A Book of Common Prayer: Simon and Schuster New York 1977, first edition. 272 pages. With a reporter’s eye for detail, Joan Didion unspools this story of an American woman caught in a storm of international revolutionary politics. The Year of Magical Thinking: Knopf New York 2005, third printing before publication, 227 pages. In this sweet sad memoir, Joan Didion tells the story of her year after her husband John Gregory Dunne’s death.