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Notes to John / Joan Didion.

Didion, Joan, (author.).

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"In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had 'a rough few years.' She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt, and the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter Quintana. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was finding difficult to maintain for sustained periods. There were discussions about her own childhood--misunderstandings and lack of communication with her mother and father, her early tendency to anticipate catastrophe--and the question of legacy, or, as she put it, 'what it's been worth.' The analysis would continue for more than a decade. ... [This is] an ... intimate account that reveals sides of her that were unknown, but the voice is unmistakably hers--questioning, courageous, and clear in the face of a wrenchingly painful journey.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0593803671
  • ISBN: 9780593803677
  • Physical Description: vi, 208 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Subject: Didion, Joan > Family.
Didion, Joan > Marriage.
Didion, Joan > Mental health.
Mothers and daughters.
Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography.
Novelists, American > 20th century > Family relationships.
Genre: Autobiographies.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Baker County Library 813.54 .D556n 2025 (Text) 37814003706455 NON-FICTION - NEW Reshelving -
Hood River County Library 921 DIDION 2025 (Text) 33892101042159 Adult New Books In process -

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