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.
琼•狄迪恩
美国女作家、记者。生于1934年,20世纪60年代步入文坛。她在小说、杂文及剧本写作上都卓有建树,在美国当代文学领域有举足轻重的地位。2005年,琼•狄迪恩获美国国家图书奖。2007年,她又获得了美国国家图书基金会为对美国国家文学做出卓越贡献的作家颁发的年度奖章。2013年,美国政府授予琼•狄迪恩美国国家人文奖章。
主要作品有《蓝夜》《向伯利恒跋涉》《奇想之年》等。
说来惭愧,直到微信公众号“正午故事”推送了《奇想之年》的片段,我才第一次认识了狄迪恩。那段时间的心境也正好吻合《奇想之年》的主题,又刚刚看完了题材相关的保罗·卡兰蒂尼的《当呼吸化为空气》,因此一下子就喜欢上了,赶紧加入了购书单。奈何我的购书单长达十多页,两...
评分认识狄迪恩,是在《奇想之年》。 我被她惊吓到。 是的,是惊吓。她写丈夫猝然离世、女儿接连昏迷这些密集的重大打击,细微至极,读者尚心痛不忍,难以想象作者是如何回忆起那些点滴细节,再大悲大痛一场的。但她就能毫末不遗却又冷静克制,还能让你心中时时涌动着一股肆虐的暗...
评分初读《蓝夜》,很不理解这本书的名字,为什么叫蓝夜?蓝夜又是什么? 蒋方舟曾在微博里写到这本书时说“她让我知道,真实是抵御逆境最好的方式,能让人在混乱中依然保持清醒。” 这本书是美国作家琼.狄迪恩为纪念她逝世的女儿所做。当一个人面对失去挚爱的痛苦,她会是怎样的无...
评分 评分《我认识的人都死了》
评分"shockingly frank"
评分阅读体验没有奇想之年好 喜欢Joan Didion敢于直接面对死亡剖析死亡的勇气,尤其是在奇想之年里。面对突如其来的死亡,写作对她来说应该是一种curing,让她有勇气面对生活。相比之下,blue nights更加温和,因为女儿的死比丈夫的死更加prepared,并不是在毫无准备的情况下,在一个再平常不过的晚上,突然来袭。但是喜欢开篇关于纽约blue nights的描写,伤感而美好。将来一定会想念纽约啊
评分不太像memoir 看得很没兴趣 几乎是逼着自己看完的 想着都看一半了搞不好后半部分会很好看 并没有。可能是不太习惯这种类似whining/perpetually fearful的风格 又零碎的很 夹带很多没必要的细节 虽然她总把这些和Q联系起来 但其实并没看出有多么深刻的connection//最戳是讲因为没有赶上两班火车而自杀的女生那part
评分Oddly, the book evokes memories of my neglected, loveless childhood. Judging by her daughter's bipolar disorder, the author was not a good mother.
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