# Run River - Paperback

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by **Joan Didion** (Author)

**************The iconic writer's electrifying first novel is****** a story of marriage, murder and betrayal that only she could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense--f**rom the bestselling, award-winning author of _The Year of Magical Thinking_ and _Let Me Tell You What I Mean.  
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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 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.

### Author Biography

JOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for _Vogue_, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion published her first novel, _Run River_, in 1963. Didion's other novels include _A Book of Common Prayer_ (1977), _Democracy_ (1984), and _The Last Thing He Wanted_ (1996).

Didion's first volume of essays, _Slouching Towards Bethlehem_, was published in 1968, and her second, _The White Album_, was published in 1979. Her nonfiction works include _Salvador_ (1983), _Miami_ (1987), _After Henry_ (1992), _Political Fictions_ (2001), _Where I Was From_ (2003), _We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live_ (2006), _Blue Nights_ (2011), _South and West_ (2017) and _Let Me Tell You What I Mean_ (2021). Her memoir _The Year of Magical Thinking_ won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005.

In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts & Letters Gold Medal in Criticism and Belles Letters. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A portion of National Book Foundation citation read: "An incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than forty-five years, Didion's distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers and journalists." In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama, and the PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Didion said of her writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means." She died in December 2021.

**Number of Pages:** 272

**Dimensions:** 0.66 x 8.01 x 5.22 IN

**Publication Date:** April 26, 1994

## Details

- **Price:** 25.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Family Life, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Thrillers

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