Río revuelto

by Joan Didion, Javier Calvo (Translator)

En un caluroso verano de 1959, el matrimonio formado por Everett McClellan y su esposa Lily, bisnietos de una larga línea de pioneros californianos, ven cómo se derrumba su vida bajo el peso acumulado de falsas apariencias, errores y traiciones. La historia comienza y termina con un disparo, cuya detonación lanza al lector veinte años atrás. Tomando el pretexto de un drama doméstico aparentemente inofensivo, Didion traza, con precisión quirúrgica, un fiel retrato de la clase media californiana de la época y retuerce los clichés románticos para retratar como una visionaria la imagen de una América que se halla al final de los sueños y se adentra en una temporada crepuscular de la que parece que ya no resurgirá.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, Novels, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, The United States Of America, American

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.
Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Over the course of her career, Didion wrote essays for many magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Esquire, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, and the history and culture of California. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s often concentrated on the subtext of political rhetoric and the United States's foreign policy in Latin America. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. She later adapted the book into a play that premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by president Barack Obama. Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, in 2017.