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| Author | Joan Didion |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Run, River is the debut novel of Joan Didion, first published in 1963. [1]
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Run, River is the debut novel of Joan Didion, first published in 1963. [1]
The novel is both a portrait of a marriage and a commentary on the history of California. [2] Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily Knight McClellan, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them (murder and betrayal) is suggested as an epilogue to the pioneer experience. [2]
In her 2003 book of essays Where I Was From , Didion turned a critical eye on this novel, calling the novel's nostalgia ''pernicious''. [3] She recalled writing it as a homesick girl lately moved from California to New York, and judged it to be a work of false nostalgia, the construction of an idyllic myth of rural Californian life that she knew never to have existed.
In a 1978 interview, Didion said that she had intended the title to be Run River but that the English publisher, Jonathan Cape, inserted a comma; "but it wasn't of very much interest to me because I hated it both ways. The working title was In the Night Season", which her American publisher did not like. [4]
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