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Blue Nights
Blue Nights
Author: Joan Didion
In her first book since The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion has now written with stunning frankness about her daughter, Quintana Roo, as well as thoughts and fears about having children and about 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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307267672
ISBN-10: 0307267679
Publication Date: 11/1/2011
Pages: 208
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  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 16 ratings
Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 2
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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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