Blue Nights.
"Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness": First Edition of Blue Nights; Lengthily Signed by Joan Didion
Blue Nights.
DIDION, Joan.
Item Number: 117199
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
First edition of this intensely personal and moving account of Joan Didion’s thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, with the following line from this work written out, “Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness Joan Didion 11-10-11.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. A unique signed example.
“Exemplary...provocative.... [Didion] comes fully to realize, and to face squarely, the dismaying fact that against life’s worst onslaughts nothing avails, not even art; especially not art" (John Banville, The New York Times Book Review).
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