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A Book of Common Prayer

Joan Didion

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#2452 of 8,085 books · #807 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1977).

A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women in the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande. Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of the country's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. "Immaculate of history, innocent of politics," she 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.

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Publisher
HarperCollins UK
ISBN-13
9780007415014
Topics
Political violence and unrestMotherhood and lossAmerican identity abroad

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