Run River

Joan Didion

ISBN 10: 0679752501 / ISBN 13: 9780679752509

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 1994-04-26, New York, 1994

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Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9780679752509

Bibliographic Details

Title: Run River

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 1994-04-26, New York

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: paperback

Condition: New

About this title

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.

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)