* * * * H O L I D A Y G I F T S * B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 9 "DIDION HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MAVERICK, AN ORIGINAL THINKER" 9. DIDION, Joan. Run River. New York, 1963. Octavo, original blue-green cloth, dust jacket. $2800 First edition of Didion’s first novel, the stepping stone for a body of work that has created one of the “most distinctive portraits of modern America” (New York Times), signed by her on the title page. “Didion has always been a maverick, an original thinker… She has created, in her books, one of the most devastating and distinctive portraits of modern America to be found in fiction or nonfiction.” Run River, Didion’s first novel, tells the story of a failed marriage and introduces themes that resurface throughout her work: “a yearning after control and order by those who see their lives falling apart; a fatalistic realization that every particular fate is the fruit born of a particular history” (New York Times). “First printing” on copyright page. Cloth faintly toned along top, dust jacket with similar faint toning, light wear to extremities. A very attractive signed copy.
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