Run, River

Run, River

"Run, River" is a 1963 novel by Joan Didion, her first.

In the 2003 book of essays "Where I Was From", Didion turned a critical eye on this novel. 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.

External links

* [http://www.parisreview.org/viewinterview.php/prmMID/3439 "The Paris Review" Interview with Joan Didion, 1978]


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