Blue nights
By: by Joan Didion
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780307267672
Subjects: American Novelists; Biography
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.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book."