The White Album by Joan Didion - 1979

VERY GOOD condition — DUST JACKET: Wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Very minor chipping to top and bottom of spine, as well as top and bottom outside corners. Very small laminate tear top edge near spine, back. A couple of closed tears bottom edges, mended with archival tape. Minor age toning. BOARDS: Very good condition. No issues. BOOK: Very good condition. No issues. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Any question: please ask. Here on offer is a very nice copy of Joan Didion's second nonfiction book of essays, The White Album, a collection of pieces previously published in magazines of Didion's views, observations and experiences with California culture in the 60s and 70s. This is a true 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Simon & Schuster in 1979. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ****************************************************************************** " 'The White Album' is a 1979 book of essays by Joan Didion. Like her previous book Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album is a collection of works previously published in magazines such as Life and Esquire. The subjects of the essays range widely and represent a mixture of memoir, criticism, and journalism, focusing on the history and politics of California in the late 1960s and early 70s. With the publication of The White Album, Didion had established herself as a prominent writer on Californian culture. As critic Michiko Kakutani stated, "California belongs to Joan Didion." The title of the book comes from its first essay, 'The White Album', which was chosen as one of the 10 most important essays since 1950 by Publishers Weekly. The opening sentence of this essay—"We tell ourselves stories in order to live"—would become one of Didion's best-known sayings, and was used as the title of a 2006 collection of Didion's nonfiction." ______________________________________________________ First published in 1979, 'The White Album' is a mosaic of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a Balck Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, the romance of water in an arid landscape, and the swirl and confusion of the sixties. With commanding sureness of mood and language, Joan Didion exposes the realities and dreams of that age of self-discovery whose spiritual center was California." The above text was taken from, respectively, Wikipedia and Simon & Schuster publishers (via Google Books). [Didion, Joan. The white album. Taiwan: Simon and Schuster, 1979.] This handsome copy would be a worthy addendum to your 1st editions library.