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Book Description
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 ...
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popmatters published on Wed, 30 Nov 2011
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Blue Nights by Joan Didion: review
Tragedy is a word lightly used by journalists to describe a range of experiences, from minor inconvenience to preposterous catastrophe. But there is something epic about the scale of Joan Didion’s misfortune. Blue Nights by Joan Didion Didion’s memoi ... (read full critics)
telegraph.co.uk published on Tue, 15 Nov 2011
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I had two contrary reactions while reading this book. The first: this is all just too private for publication. Didion, a sad, frail woman, grieving for all her lost friends and especially for her husband and daughter, feels compelled to torment herself with a detailed analysis of all the occasions ... (continue)
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- English Books
- Others 208 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0307700518
- ISBN-13: 9780307700513
- Publisher: Knopf
- Pub date: Nov 01, 2011
- Also available as: eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Things Fall Apart: Joan Didion's 'Blue Nights'
In 1968, Joan Didion published a book of essays entitled Slouching Towards Bethlehem. In “A Preface”, she wrote: “This book is called Slouching Towards Bethlehem because for several years now certain lines from the Yeats poem have reverberated in my ... (read full critics)