To Make a House a Home: Four Generations of American Women and the Houses They Lived In.

First edition of Jane and Lesley Davison's To Make a House a Home; inscribed by Lesley Davison to Joan Didion

To Make a House a Home: Four Generations of American Women and the Houses They Lived In.

DAVISON, Jane and Lesley Davison. [Joan Didion].

$1,750.00

Item Number: 141054

New York: Random House, 1994.

First edition of Jane and Lesley Davison’s timeless work. Quarto, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Lesley Davison on a bookplate adhered to the second free endpaper, “For Joan Didion. Many thanks for your encouragement. Lesley Davison.” The recipient, American journalist and novelist Joan Didion gained a reputation in the 1960s and 70s as a pioneer of the New Journalism style of news writing. Her articles and political writing engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, California culture, and California history. She also gained recognition for her sensational novels, including her first nonfiction book, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of magazine pieces about her experiences in California. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Book endorsement on the back jacket panel contributed by Joan Didion. Jacket design by Susan Shapiro.

"Jane Davison's stylistic brio and sociological shrewdness are matched by her warmth of feeling and depth of research" (John Updike).

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