Notes to John [Pehme köide]

Praise for Notes to John:





Utterly fascinating shares with Blue Nights the subject of mother and daughter, generational trauma and general anxiety, and both are written with Didion's constitutional meticulousness New York Times



'An incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression, and creativity' Guardian



Raw and intimate An unfiltered stream of brutal self-examination from a writer who was painfully conscious about shaping her public image New York Times Book Review



A profound, rich document New Statesman



An act of intimate storytelling the diehard Didion fans (we know who we are) will feel hypnotized by these pages Vogue



Written with the immediacy of fresh recollection Readers of her memoirs will recognise how these notes inform those final books the striving to understand and the sense of futility that comes with it New Yorker



Has a candour which refutes any charges of exploitation Julian Barnes, author of Departure(s), in the New Statesman



Its fascinating to see her making connections and presenting evidence of misremembered parts of her past offers insight into her work iPaper



An unfiltered and unrestrained glimpse into domestic distress, the unavoidable guilt of motherhood, and the great burden of legacy The Nation



A tour de force from one of the best People



A valuable glance behind the scenes, a study of how her outlook, and the weight of her talent, factored into life off the page Irish Independent



An unfiltered glimpse into the mind of the New Journalism poster girlAnOther



Much of Notes to John will feel familiar to anyone whos coped with a loved one cycling between recovery and relapses. Her notes capture the maddening, circular nature of this dilemma Slate



A reckoning with what one can and can't accept or change Alta



An unexpected parting gift to biographers and civilian readers direct and personal, shorn of vanity Air Mail