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Blauwe nachten

door Joan Didion

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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.   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 Quintana's childhood--in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. "How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?" Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own 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 profoundly moving.… (meer)
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I was hoping for a little more about her daughter and their relationship, and less repetition of cryptic one-liners. ( )
  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
Välskriven och bitvis gripande. Men det blir lite störande med all "titta-vad-jag-har-varit-och-vem-jag-känner" namedropping. ( )
  Mikael.Linder | Jun 9, 2023 |
This Joan Didion book is a sort of companion to The Year of Living Magically. In the latter, Didion tells the story of her husband John Gregory Dunne’s death and begins to tell the story of her daughter Quintana Roo’s health problems. Blue Nights focuses primarily on Quintana and her death toward the end of the book. One thing I found curious was Didion’s discussion of those who claimed that Quintana led a privileged life. She seems defensive about this and even says that anyone who thinks this can’t know about her daughter’s difficult health battles the last couple of years of her life. If ever there was a privileged family, it was this one. One of Joan Didion’s talents is writing about the details of where she is and what she is experiencing. Just about any time she mentions what people are wearing, she mentions which designer created that particular dress, or jacket, or whatever the piece of clothing a person was wearing. She is notorious for name dropping. Of course, how could she have helped this? She knew every famous beautiful person in the last few decades of her life. That said, I always enjoy reading Joan Didion. Just her beautiful writing is worth the price of admission. She will be missed. ( )
  FormerEnglishTeacher | Jan 24, 2022 |
Bad timing. I began reading this book on December 23. The next day, I learned that Joan Didion had died. That added poignancy to this, since it is a book saturated with death and dying. One could even say the book is haunted by the memory of her husband, their daughter, and a friend of the family. By the end of the book, the author reluctantly confronts her own mortality.
Perhaps I should also mention that I chose this as something light to read while sitting in a hospital waiting room? So not only was my timing off.
Given the timing, it feels uncharitable to say so, but from the beginning, this book felt like a slim addendum to her Year of Magical Thinking, a powerful book. The writing is beautiful, although her repetition of sentences that act as leitmotifs, which was evocative, even mesmerizing for a while, began to wear on me. Even more irritating to me was Didion’s penchant for name-dropping. In a way, fair enough: she and her husband were bright stars in the literary firmament of both Hollywood and New York, so these people were a part of their social life, even their circle of friends (not always the same thing). But brand-name dropping? Christian Louboutin, Chanel, David Webb. Perhaps I feel left out because these evoke no pictures in me, as if I’m not the person Didion wrote this for. I nearly gave up on the book when she listed the hotels she, her husband, and her daughter stayed in. Then adds, when they were on expenses; then she named a hotel they stayed in when they had to pay the bill.
I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt and reckoned with the possibility that she was aware of how this sounded.
And perhaps that this is part of the message of the book. No matter how well-padded your expense account, or even if you land in Columbia Presbyterian rather than Lenox Hill hospital, the time comes when you realize that medicine is, as Didion writes, “an imperfect art.” And even when that art is practiced flawlessly, we remain mortal. ( )
  HenrySt123 | Jan 13, 2022 |
Thin, unsatisfying follow-up to The Year of Magical Thinking. ( )
  Octavia78 | Nov 28, 2021 |
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Didion, Joanprimaire auteuralle editiesbevestigd
Danielsson, UllaVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Strubel, Antje RávicVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Vezzoli, DelfinaVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
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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.   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 Quintana's childhood--in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. "How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?" Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own 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 profoundly moving.

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