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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Publication date
November 1, 2011
Pages
179
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Large print
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780739378434
ISBN-10
0739378430
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 9.50 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
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$25.00
Other format details
large print
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§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.
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Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintanaâs wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintanaâs childhoodâin 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. âHow could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?â Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. 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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Blue Nightsâthe long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, âthe opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warningââlike The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.
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Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintanaâs wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintanaâs childhoodâin 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. âHow could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?â Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. 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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Blue Nightsâthe long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, âthe opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warningââlike The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.
Editions
Hardcover
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (November 1, 2011)
9780307267672 | details & prices | 188 pages | 5.75 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $25.00
Paperback
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (May 29, 2012)
9780307387387 | details & prices | 188 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $15.00
The price comparison is for this edition
Large print edition from Random House Large Print (November 1, 2011)
9780739378434 | details & prices | 179 pages | 6.00 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $25.00
About: From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.
About: From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.
CD/Spoken Word
With Kimberly Farr (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (November 1, 2011)
9780307940810 | details & prices | 5.00 × 5.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $25.00
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