Joan Didion Blue Nights

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Blue Nights 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.

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  1. Blue Nights is a 2011 memoir by American author Joan Didion chronicling the unexpected death of Didion’s daughter, Quintana, at age thirty-nine in 2005, and her grieving process thereafter.
  2. Blue Nights is a memoir by Joan Didion, written after Didion’s daughter died of cancer at age 39. 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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Blue Nights sono le ore lunghe e luminose della sera che a New York preannunciano il solstizio d’estate, «l’opposto della morte del fulgore, ma anche il suo annuncio».Sono passati sette anni da quando Joan Didion e John Gregory Dunne festeggiavano il matrimoniodella figlia Quintana Roo nella cattedrale di St. John the Divine in Amsterdam Avenue. Joan Didion ripensa a quel giorno, ai gelsomini del Madagascar nei capelli di Quintana, al fiore di frangipani tatuato sulla spalla. I ricordi rievocano istantanee dell’infanzia di Quintana: Malibù, la scuola di Holmby Hills, la California Meridionale e le sue stagioni «che arrivano in modo così teatrale da sembrare colpi di un destino inatteso». I ricordi spingono Joan Didion a interrogarsi sul suo essere madre, ora che la figlia non c’è più. A rileggereogni singolo evento della vita di Quintana alla ricerca di segni che forse non aveva voluto vedere.A fare i conti con la propria, inaspettata vecchiaia.Come L’anno del pensiero magico, Blue Nights colpisce per la precisione chirurgica con cui parla del dolore.