The Year of Magical Thinking
by Didion, Joan (signed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 140004314X
- ISBN 13
- 9781400043149
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: Knopf, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Inscribed two days after its official publication date (October 6, 2005) on the title page: "For Dee Dee -- via Kelly -- with thanks for the picture help! Joan Didion, October 8 2005." An uncommonly long inscription for Didion, who is typically quite to the point. This book won the National Book Award and was adapted by Didion into a broadway play starring Vanessa Redgrave. A fine copy in a near fine jacket with just a touch of rubbing. Perhaps the best condition of any of the signed copies we've handled, as this jacket is prone to sunning. Comes with a paperback reading copy.
Synopsis
The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), by Joan Didion (b. 1934), is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003). Published by Knopf in October 2005, the book was immediately acclaimed as a classic in the genre of mourning literature. It won the National Book Award in November 2005 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1043
- Title
- The Year of Magical Thinking
- Author
- Didion, Joan (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 140004314X
- ISBN 13
- 9781400043149
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2005
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Rural Hours
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La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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- Rubbing
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