"ABOUT MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN AND MEMORY": FIRST EDITION OF THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, SIGNED BY JOAN DIDION
DIDION, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Octavo, original half green paper boards, original dust jacket. $1950.
First edition of Didion's National Book Award-winning memoir, signed on the title page by her.
"At once exquisitely controlled and heartbreakingly sad, The Year of Magical Thinking tells us in complete unvarnished terms what it is to love someone and lose him… It is a book that tells us how people try to make sense of the senseless" (New York Times). Didion's account of the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and the long illness of their daughter Quintana won the National Book Award. Basis for Didion's own theatrical adaptation, starring Vanessa Redgrave in the 2007 Broadway premiere. With "First Edition" on copyright page.
Fine condition.