Of the Farm (Joan Didion's copy)
NY: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Third printing. An association copy, not signed but from the library of Joan Didion, renown author of such works as The Year of Magical Thinking, Play It as It Lays, The White Album, and Slouching Toward Bethlehem. A bookplate affirming this provenance is on the front free endpaper. Octavo in green paper boards with a green cloth spine with stamped silver lettering, pink topstain. Very good with sunning/ghosting to outer and upper edges of the front board through the jacket. In a very good jacket with darkening to spine and outer and upper edge of the front panel; some loss to top of spine and a small chip/half-inch tear to the lower edge of the front panel. Very good / Very good. Item #2266
ISBN: 0394438981
More about the book:
"Joey Robinson is a thirty-five-year-old advertising consultant working in the urban jungle of Manhattan. One day, Joey decides to return to the farm where he grew up, and where his mother still lives. Accompanied by his newly acquired second wife and an eleven-year-old stepson, he begins to reassess and evaluate the course his life has taken. For three days, a quartet of voices explores the country air, relates stories, makes confessions, seeks solace, and hopes for love. But all of their emotional musings and reflections pale when tragedy strikes-- one that threatens to separate the family, even as it draws them closer."
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