Chemical Pink: A Novel of Obsession.

ARNOLD, Katie. [Joan Didion].

$1,200.00

Item Number: 141135

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2001.

First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Joan – Thank you for being so generous & kind. Your support has made all the difference. Lots of love, Katie 2/19/01.” The recipient, American journalist and novelist Joan Didion gained a reputation in the 1960s and 70s as a pioneer of the New Journalism style of news writing. Her articles and political writing engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, California culture, and California history. She also gained recognition for her sensational novels, including her first nonfiction book, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of magazine pieces about her experiences in California. 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. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Book endorsement on the front jacket panel contributed by Joan Didion. Jacket design by Dennis Brack. With an additional note inscribed by Arnoldi to Didion and invitation to a reception for Chemical Pink tipped in. From the library of Joan Didion.

"Chemical Pink is a dazzling first novel - entirely original, dizzyingly controlled, all ice-cool momentum on the surface and all shock below" (Joan Didion).