Author: Joan Didion
Translator: Jae-Sung Kim
Publisher: Mujintree
208 pages | 210*140mm
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About This Book
A New York Times Notable Book
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning
frankness about losing a daughter.
Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life
with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this
new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of
her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and
growing old.
As she reflects on her daughter¡¯s life and on her role as a parent,
Didion grapples with the candid questions that all parents face, and
contemplates her age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less
accept. Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer
solstice, ¡°the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its
warning¡±—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book
of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profound.
Review
¡°Incantatory.... A beautiful condolence note to humanity
about some of the painful realities of the human condition.¡± —The
Washington Post
¡°Heartbreaking.... A searing inquiry into loss and a melancholy
mediation on mortality and time.¡± —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
¡°Joan Didion is a brilliant observer, a powerful thinker, a writer whose
work has been central to the times in which she has lived. Blue Nights
continues her legacy.¡± —The Boston Globe
¡°Exemplary...provocative.... [Didion] comes fully to realize, and to
face squarely, the dismaying fact that against life¡¯s worst onslaughts
nothing avails, not even art; especially not art.¡± —John Banville, The
New York Times Book Review
¡°A beautiful, soaring, polyphonic eulogy.... What appears on the surface
to be an elegantly, intelligently, deeply felt, precisely written story
of the loss of a beloved child is actually an elegantly, intelligently,
deeply felt, precisely written glimpse into the abyss, a book that
forces us to understand, to admit, that there can be no preparation for
tragedy, no protection from it, and so, finally, no consolation.¡± —The
New York Review of Books
¡°Profoundly moving.... This is first and last a meditation on
mortality.¡± —San Francisco Chronicle
¡°Ms. Didion has translated the sad hum of her thoughts into a profound
meditation on mortality. The result aches with a wisdom that feels
dreadfully earned.¡± —The Economist
¡°For the great many of us who cherish Joan Didion, who can never get
enough of her voice and her brilliant, fragile, endearing, pitiless
persona, [Blue Nights] is a gift.¡± —Newsday
¡°Exquisite.... She applies the same rigorous standards of research and
meticulous observation to her own life that she expects from herself in
journalism. And to get down to the art of what she does, her sense of
form is as sharp as a glass-cutter¡¯s, and her sentences fold back on
themselves and come out singing in a way that other writers can only
wonder at and envy.¡± —The Washington Independent Review of Books
¡°Ms. Didion has created something luminous amid her self-recrimination
and sorrow. It¡¯s her final gift to her daughter—one that only she could
give.¡± —Wall Street Journal
¡°Didion¡¯s bravest work. It is a bittersweet look back at what she¡¯s
lost, and an unflinching assessment of what she has left.¡± —BookPage
¡°Yes, this is a book about aging and about loss. Mostly, though, it is
about what one parent and child shared—and what all parents and children
share, the intimacy of what bring you closer and what splits you apart.¡±
—Oprah.com
¡°Haunting.¡± —Entertainment Weekly
¡°Breathtaking.... With harrowing honesty and mesmerizing style, Didion
chronicles the tragic death of her daughter, Quintana, interwoven with
memories of their happier days together and Didion¡¯s own meditations on
aging.¡± —Newsweek
¡°Darkly riveting.... The cumulative effect of watching her finger her
recollections like beads on a rosary is unexpectedly instructive. None
of us can escape death, but Blue Nights shows how Didion has, with the
devastating force of her penetrating mind, learned to simply abide.¡±
—Elle
¡°In this supremely tender work of memory, Didion is paradoxically
insistent that as long as one person is condemned to remember, there can
still be pain and loss and anguish.¡± —Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair
¡°Didion¡¯s latest memoir unflinchingly reflects on old age and the
tragedy of her daughter¡¯s death.¡±
—Best New Paperbacks, Entertainment Weekly
About the Author
Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, and now
lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and eight
previous books of nonfiction. Her collected nonfiction, We Tell
Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, was published by Everyman's Library
in 2006.
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