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    Ready Reference Treatise: The Year of Magical Thinking
    Ready Reference Treatise: The Year of Magical Thinking
    Ready Reference Treatise: The Year of Magical Thinking
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    Ready Reference Treatise: The Year of Magical Thinking

    By Raja Sharma

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    But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams with the help of such notes; they miss so many things which haunt them in their later lives.

    I would strongly advise all the students to read the original text once again even if you have already read it, after reading this short treatise. You will see that the same story, after reading this treatise, will begin to give many new meanings to you.

    All the best.

    Raja Sharma

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateJul 2, 2012
    ISBN9781476018294
    Ready Reference Treatise: The Year of Magical Thinking
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Ready Reference Treatise - Raja Sharma

      Ready Reference Treatise: The Year of Magical Thinking

      Raja Sharma

      Copyright@2012 Raja Sharma

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      Joan Didion is considered as one of the most important of the writers who emerged during the 1960s and 1970s and who were called New Journalists. Didion was born in 1934 in Sacramento, California. She was the daughter of an Air Force officer and a homemaker. The families of her parents had lived in central California for five generations. Her ancestors were the settlers who had come to the New World in search of better life.

      Joan Didion’s writing style is plain and direct and it clearly reflects her ancestry. In most of her famous essays, she presents her home state prominently. She wrote in details about the failures of liberalism and the rise of counter culture movements during the 1960s. Didion’s writings minutely observe the society and the changes taking place in the contemporary society.

      Joan Didion’s higher education took place at the University of California at Berkeley. She studied English there. She was a highly talented student and she often took part in writing competitions. Didion was the winner of Vogue’s Prix de Paris essay in the year 1956. The essay competition was meant to encourage young aspiring writers. Having won that prize Didion got some experience at the magazine. She finally became associate editor of the magazine. Vogue was a very popular magazine at the time.

      Didion was very good at describing the products which featured in the magazine. She avoided unnecessary description and superfluous writing style. Her writings in the magazine created a very formative effect on her prose style.

      Her first novel, Run River, was published in the year 1963. The important themes of the novel were nostalgia, death, and irreversible change. In her book The Year of Magical Thinking she deals with all these elements.

      In 1963, John Gregory Dunne came into her life. They fell in love and got married in the first month of the following year. John was a reporter for Time magazine. He was also an aspiring novelist. Their marriage took place at the Catholic Mission San Juan Bautista in the month of January, in the year 1964.

      Soon after their marriage, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion moved to Los Angeles. They lived in Los Angeles for the following twenty five years of their life.

      Quintana was their only child. They adopted the child in California and they named the child Quintana Roo, a peninsula in the Yucatan.

      Since both of them were writers, they wrote some of the novels, essays, reviews, and screenplays together. Slouching Toward Bethlehem was a collection of essays which was published by Didion in 1968. The essays were compiled from features she had already written for the Saturday Evening Post.

      In her essays, Didion presented a detached and analytical voice. She described the shattered social order in California. She mixed her personal thoughts with her clever social commentary. Two years after the publication of the book of essays, she published her second novel Play It As It Lays. The book was a teasing and effective satire on Hollywood culture.

      The husband and wife collaborated for the first time in 1971 for a screen play titled Panic in Needle Park. It was a successful adventure. Then came the great success with The White Album in 1981. It brought a six figure salary, a successful film adaptation, and a National Book Award nomination. Didion made her distinguished place

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