Run River by Joan Didion [1971 PAPERBACK] MEGA RARE Bantam Printing
Run River by Joan Didion
VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1971] BANTAM BOOKS
Mega Rare 1971 paperback printing of Didion's first novel. Extremely rare cover art.
Book is in very good reading condition. Cover does show visible wear; creasing along spine.
Inside, Small nick to text block, visible on first dozen pages or so [see last photo]. Also what looks like a small water stain visible on far edge of title page.
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.