Blue Nights by Joan Didion

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

From one of our most powerful writers, a classic work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.

‘Her prose is a thing of beauty’ Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times

‘Where the book is most successful – and most poignant – is in the viciously honest picture Didion draws of a lonely, encroaching old age … your heart breaks for her increasing and incurable frailty’ Julie Myerson, Observer

Reviews for ‘A Year of Magical Thinking’:
‘It is the most awesome performance of both participating in, and watching, an eventEven though Didion does not allow herself to break down, only a terribly controlled reader will resist doing the same.’ John Freeman, Independent

‘Ultimately, and unexpectedly for a book about illness and death, this is a wonderfully life affirming book.’ Lisa O’Kelly, Observer

‘Searing, informative and affecting. Don’t leave life without it.’ Financial Times

‘This is a beautiful and devastating book by one of the finest writers we have. Didion has always been a precise, humane and meticulously truthful writer, but on the subject of death she becomes essential.’ Zadie Smith

Joan Didion is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction: among them the great portraits of a decade in essays, ‘Sentimental Journeys’, ‘The White Album’, and ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’. Her previous book, ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ was an international bestseller.

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ISBN 13	9780007432905
ISBN 10	0007432909
Title	Blue Nights
Author	Joan Didion
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2012-06-07
Number of pages	208
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