She wrote the 1970 novel "Play it as it Lays" & the 2005 memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking"
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of The White Album is probably the best-written essay of all time in my book,... [DOC] [TLE] Play It As It Lays - Books on Google Play [PAR] Her critically acclaimed second novel PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1970) was about a ... 
the grief she felt at Dunne's death in THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING (2005).