01969cam a2200289 4500 544917884 TxAuBib 20140110120000.0 110412s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011013582 9780307267672 0307267679 (OCoLC)697261612 DLC eng DLC BTCTA YDXCP UPZ NSB ZHS IEP ABG VP@ LMR CDX BWX DEBBG CGU OCLCQ ADI TxAuBib Didion, Joan. Blue nights / Joan Didion. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 188 p. ; 21 cm. Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent. In this memoir, the author shares her observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent. It 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 missed or perhaps displaced. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. 20140110. Didion, Joan. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. BTCLS