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Blue Nights

By Joan , Didion

Book information

Publisher
distributed by Random House, Vintage;Alfred A. Knopf
Year
2011
ISBN
9780307700513, 0307700518
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1793782 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
188 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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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