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Blue Nights
Blue Nights
Author: Joan Didion
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,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781620901113
ISBN-10: 1620901110
Publication Date: 1/1/2012
Pages: 188
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Publisher: Alfred Knopf
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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reviewed Blue Nights on + 46 more book reviews
I really enjoyed this book, as well as her previous work, The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion makes you "feel" her grief and loneliness after such tragic losses. Very well written.
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Joan Didion in Blue Nights captures elegantly and with out frills the mindset of grief and twilight years. A beautiful short contemplation on the present filtered through processing past loss and anticipating an unaccompanied death ahead.


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