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Título: Blue nights
Autora: Joan Didion
Número de páginas: 208
Editorial: Knopf
Fecha original de publicación: 2011
ISBN: 978-0307267672
País: Estados Unidos

Sinopsis: (Tomada de www.amazon.com) "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."

Otros títulos notables de la autora:
. Run, River (1963)
. Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
. Play It As It Lays (1970)
. A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
. The White Album (1979)
. Salvador (1983)
. Democracy (1984)
. Miami (1987)
. After Henry (1992)
. The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)
. Political Fictions (2001)
. Where I Was From (2003)
. Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003; preface by Frank Rich)
. Vintage Didion (2004)
. The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
. We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006)
. The Year of Magical Thinking (2006)