After Henry.

DIDION, Joan.

Item Number: 69008

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

First edition of this collection of eleven essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.

"Joan Didion has great instincts for metaphor. She can take an ordinary object . . . and make it as ominous as Hitchcock. . . . She's writing truths about American culture in the sand at our feet. . . . With Didion leading, you could well follow one of her paragraphs into hell" (Boston Globe)