RUN RIVER - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671442589 ISBN 13: 9780671442583

Synopsis

Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense.

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Review:

" There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanael West.... [She has] a vision as bleak and precise as Eliot's." -- John Leonard, "The New York Times"
" A slant of vision that is arresting and unique . . . Didion might be an observer from another planet-- one so edgy and alert that she ends up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves." " "-- Anne Tyler, "New Republic"
" A beautifully told first novel . . . written in prose both witty and imaginative." -- "The Times Literary Supplement "(London)

"There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanael West.... [She has] a vision as bleak and precise as Eliot's." --John Leonard, The New York Times"A slant of vision that is arresting and unique . . . Didion might be an observer from another planet--one so edgy and alert that she ends up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves." --Anne Tyler, New Republic"A beautifully told first novel . . . written in prose both witty and imaginative." --The Times Literary Supplement (London)

About the Author:

Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.

About this edition

• ISBN 10: 0671442589
• ISBN 13: 9780671442583
• Binding: Paperback