Blue nights
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Pub. Date:
2011.
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English
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From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. “How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?” Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.
Subjects
Subjects
Adoptive parents
Adoptive parents -- United States -- Biography
Biography & Autobiography
Children
Children -- Death
Death
Didion, Joan
Family relationships
Grief
Literary Criticism
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters
Mothers and daughters -- United States
Nonfiction
Novelists, American
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Older women
Older women -- United States -- Biography
Psychology
Women novelists, American
Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
Adoptive parents -- United States -- Biography
Biography & Autobiography
Children
Children -- Death
Death
Didion, Joan
Family relationships
Grief
Literary Criticism
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters
Mothers and daughters -- United States
Nonfiction
Novelists, American
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Older women
Older women -- United States -- Biography
Psychology
Women novelists, American
Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
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ISBN:
9781616570453
9780307940841
9780307267672
9780307700513
9780307940841
9780307267672
9780307700513
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topic_facet | Adoptive parents Biography & Autobiography Children Death Didion, Joan Family relationships Grief Literary Criticism Loss (Psychology) Mothers and daughters Nonfiction Novelists, American Older women Psychology Women novelists, American |