Blue Nights. “When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.”. When she lost her husband to a heart attack, Joan Didion (b. ) treaded grief and wrote the extraordinary The Year of Magical Thinking. A year later, her daughter died after a sustained illness. Blue Nights is about her daughter’s death. · Blue Nights by Joan Didion – review Joan Didion's memoir of the death of her daughter is troubling Joan Didion with her daughter Quintana Roo Dunne at their Malibu home in Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Blue Nights by Joan Didion is one of the most amazing books I have read. It is Joan Didion at her very best. She writes about the life and death of her daughter, her role as a mother, of parallels. Joan writes about an unparalleled LOVE. Joan writes with elequance. THere is a thread, a pattern, a rythem/5().
Didion writes about her grief in her second memoir of loss — "Blue Nights" -- published six years later. Before writing both memoirs, Didion, now 84, had been revered for her informed and measured voice and was best known for her essays on the California subculture of the '60s and '70s. Blue Nights opens on J, 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. Blue Nights is a tragic kind of sequel to The Year of Magical Thinking, describing the subsequent death of Didion's daughter Quintana, aged only where the earlier book drew its strength from.
Blue Nights is a memoir written by American author Joan Didion, first published in The memoir is an account of the death of Didion's daughter, Quintana, who died in at age Didion also discusses her own feelings on parenthood and aging. The title refers to certain times in the "summer solstice when the twilights turn long and blue." Blue Nights is notable for its "nihilistic" attitude towards grief as Didion offers little understanding or explanation of her daughter's death. Writin. “Blue Nights” is an account of the death, in , of her and Dunne’s adopted daughter, Quintana Roo, and more specifically, of Didion’s struggle, as a mother and a writer, to cope with. Blue Nights is a memoir by Joan Didion, written after Didion’s daughter died of cancer at age The book’s main focus is Didion’s relationship with her daughter, but it also addresses the author's own childhood and offers some very frank thoughts on old age and mortality in general.
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