Damage.

HART, Josephine.

$125.00

Item Number: 126823

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

First edition of Hart’s best-known work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Sally – who is on her own journey of the soul Much Love, Josephine.” The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on her subjects and developed intimate rapports with them during her process, resulting in striking and revealing portraits. In addition to the several world leaders Soames came to know and photograph, she captured the unique personalities of some of the world’s most gifted authors, poets, and playwrights. She published two books of photographs during her lifetime: Manpower (1987) with text by Robin Morgan and an introduction by Harold Evans and Writers (1995) with a preface by Norman Mailer. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Author photograph by Johnny Boylan.

Damage follows the story of a British politician who, in the prime of life, causes his own downfall through an inappropriate relationship with his son's girlfriend (and later fiancée). It was adapted into a film of the same title by Louis Malle in 1992. "A passionate, elegant, ruthless story" (Iris Murdoch). "A remarkable first novel of awesome accomplishment and quite startling psychological insight" (Ruth Rendell).