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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679752501

ISBN-139780679752509

eBay Product ID (ePID)269894

Product Key Features

Book TitleRun River

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1994

TopicThrillers / Psychological, Small Town & Rural, Family Life, General

GenreFiction

AuthorJoan Didion

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-045274

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"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 planetone 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), "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)

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisThe 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--from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean. 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., 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. 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3554.I33R86 1994