Description: 1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN: 9780307700513,
Language: English
Title from: Title details screen
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OverDrive subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
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.
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook
Mode of access: World Wide Web
File size: 1804 KB
In English
Children -- Death
Women novelists, American -- Family relationships -- 20th century
Women novelists, American -- Biography -- 20th century
Novelists, American -- Biography -- 20th century
Mothers and daughters -- United States
Adoptive parents -- Biography -- United States
Older women -- Biography -- United States
Loss (Psychology)
Grief
Electronic books
OverDrive -- Adult collection
OverDrive
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