Blue nights
by Joan Didion
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In this memoir, the author shares her observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent. It 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 missed or perhaps displaced. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept.
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American Novelists, Biography, New York Times bestseller, nyt:combined_print_nonfiction=2011-11-19, American Women novelists, Mothers and daughters, Authors, biography, Grief, New York Times reviewed, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2022-01-16, Novelistas estadounidense, BiografíaPeople
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Blue nights
2011, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
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0307267679 9780307267672
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Blue nights
2011, Random House Large Print
in English
- 1st large print ed.
0739378430 9780739378434
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