DIDION, Joan.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1968.
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"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language": First Edition of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; Signed by Joan Didion and from the library of Jacket designer Lawrence Ratzkin
First edition of what many consider her magnum opus, signed by Didion and from the library of dust jacket designer Lawrence Ratzkin, with his note to the front panel, "Keep for Book design." Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. An exceptional example, rare and desirable.
Upon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene. "In her portraits of people," The New York Times Book Review wrote, "Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naïve acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful. . . . A rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country." Listed by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
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