A Book of Common Prayer [ Sealed ] Joan Didion Easton Press & Franklin Library,Easton Press & Franklin Library.,FICTION,Modern Classics,Mystery & C

In Fine/As new condition. Never removed from the protective cover issued by the publisher. Signed by the renowned Joan Didion. Sealed editions of this publication/edition have become increasingly scarce. Accompanying photos are from an identical copy. Comes with all collector's paperwork and certificate of authenticity. Includes all the Easton Press printing points: leather bound edition with gold gilt cover designs and page ends, moire silk pages and bound-in silk bookmark. Smyth-sewn for decades of durability. Bound in the USA. Originally published by Vintage International on March 14th,1977 and presented here as a collector's edition endorsed with Didion's signature. Didion spoke with The Paris Review s Hilton Als in Issue 176/Spring 2006 about her process: "Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. You have no notes or sometimes you do, I made extensive notes for A Book of Common Prayer but the notes give you only the background, not the novel itself. In nonfiction the notes give you the piece. Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing When I m working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won t go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. At the end of the day, I mark up the pages I ve done pages or page all the way back to page one. I mark them up so that I can retype them in the morning. It gets me past that blank terror." Fine/As New and still in the publisher's issued protective cover