Run River - Hardcover

Didion, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0006218792 ISBN 13: 9780006218791

Verlag: I. Obolensky, 1963

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Joan Didion's electrifying debut 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. She wrote it in 1963 with editing assistance by John Gregory Dunne, the man she would marry a year later and to whom she would remain married for nearly four decades. Born in Sacramento, California on December 5th 1934, American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter Joan Didion created some of the most poignant portraits of American culture throughout the 1960s and 70s. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956 and immediately began her career as a copywriter for Vogue, her work later appearing in Life, Esquire, and the Saturday Evening Post.

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Joan Didion's electrifying first novel begins with a murder on the bank of the Sacramento River--a murder that is at once an act of vengeance and a blind attempt to shore up a disintegrating marriage. Out of that act, Didion constructs a tragic and beautifully nuanced work of fiction.

About the Author:

JOAN DIDION is celebrated in the worlds of journalism, literature, and film. She is the author of seven previous books of nonfiction and five novels. With her late husband, John Gregory Dunne, she wrote many screenplays including The Panic in Needle Park and A Star Is Born. She lives in New York City.

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• Verlag: I. Obolensky
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1963
• ISBN 10: 0006218792
• ISBN 13: 9780006218791
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264