Blue Nights
by Joan Didion
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in 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. Blu...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Nonfiction.
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Ben Goldsmith
“Joan Didion, who died today, whose book Blue Nights moved me to my soul, on the death of her daughter ~”
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