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Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]

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Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]
Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed] Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed] Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed] Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed] Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed] Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed] Joan Didion "A Book of Common Prayer" Signed Limited Edition w/COA [Sealed]

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Personally signed by Joan Didion directly onto a special title page.

 

Easton Press, Norwalk, CT. "A Book of Common Prayer" by Joan Didion. Signed Limited Edition. COA laid in. Full genuine leather. An attractive leather bound collectible heirloom. Only 1,200 signed limited editions were printed for this special edition. Sealed.

 

"An articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice."-- Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

"A novelist with important things to say about the dislocations of our time.... Joan Didion is stellar."--Newsday

 


About the book

A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women in the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande. Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of the country's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. "Immaculate of history, innocent of politics," she has come to Boca Grande vaguely and vainly hoping to be reunited with her fugitive daughter. As imagined by Didion, her fate is at once utterly particular and fearfully emblematic of an age of conscienceless authority and unfathomable violence.

 

 

Features

Includes all the classic Easton Press qualities:
* Premium Leather
* Silk Moire Endleaves
* Distinctive Cover Design
* Hubbed Spine, Accented in Real 22KT Gold
* Satin Ribbon Page Marker
* Gilded Page Edges
* Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper
* Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability
* Beautiful Illustrations
 
 

About The Author

Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe. Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, California culture, and California history. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s often concentrated on the subtext of political and social rhetoric. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. She later adapted the book into a play that premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary entitled, The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, in 2017.

 

At the peak of Didion's career, her writing was recognized for its significance in defining and observing American subcultures for mainstream audiences. In 1968, The New York Times referred to her early work as containing "grace, sophistication, nuance, [and] irony." In 2005, she won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography for The Year of Magical Thinking. She later adapted the book into a play, which premiered on Broadway in 2007.

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Publisher:
Easton Press
Edition:
Signed Limited Edition
Binding:
Full Genuine Leather
Title:
A Book Of Common Prayer
Author:
Joan Didion
Signature Authenticity:
Lifetime Guarantee of Signature Authenticity. Personally signed by Joan Didion directly into the book. The autograph is not a facsimile, stamp, or auto-pen.
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