A Book of Common Prayer

Joan Didion

A Book of Common Prayer
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
11 April 1995
Pages
272
ISBN
9780679754862

A Book of Common Prayer

Joan Didion

A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean

[Didion’s] most ambitious project in fiction, and her most successful … glows with a golden aura of well-wrought classical tragedy.
-Los Angeles Times Book Review

Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of Boca Grande’s wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. Immaculate of history, innocent of politics, Charlotte has come to Boca Grande vaguely and vainly hoping to be reunited with her fugitive daughter. As imagined by Didion, her fate is at once utterly particular and fearfully emblematic of an age of conscienceless authority and unfathomable violence.

A Book of Common Prayer is written with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made Didion one of our most distinguished journalists.

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