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Blue Nights
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Artikel-Nr:
9780307387387
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.07.2012
Seiten:
208
Autor:
Joan Didion
Gewicht:
217 g
Format:
201x133x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Joan Didion, geboren 1934 in Sacramento, studierte Literatur in Berkeley und arbeitete als freie Journalistin für zahlreiche große amerikanische Zeitungen. Sie war u. a. Herausgeberin der Vogue und hat vier Romane sowie zahlreiche Essaybände veröffentlicht. 2005 erhielt sie den National Book Award.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old.
As she reflects on her daughter s life and on her role as a parent, Didion grapples with the candid questions that all parents face, and contemplates her age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profound.
Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old.
As she reflects on her daughter s life and on her role as a parent, Didion grapples with the candid questions that all parents face, and contemplates her age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profound.
Joan Didion verlor in kurzer Folge zwei ihr liebe Menschen. Den Tod ihres Ehemannes verarbeitete sie in The Year of Magical Thinking. Kurz vor der Veröffentlichung verstarb auch ihre schwer kranke Tochter Quintana. In Blue Nights teilt Didion ihre intensiven und bewegenden Erinnerungen an ihre Tochter und ihre Gedanken über Kinder, Krankheit und das Älterwerden mit dem Leser.