True Confessions: A Novel.

First edition of this work, basis for the film, with the screenplay by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Kate- A look at a part of Los Angeles one does not ordinarily see. Fondly John Xmas 1977." Additionally signed by Joan Didion below. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Design by Guy Fleming. Photograph by Nancy Ellison. It was the basis for the 1981 film True Confessions, directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. Dunne co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Joan Didion.