A Book of Common Prayer (Used Hardcover) - Joan Didion

A Book of Common Prayer (Used Hardcover) - Joan Didion

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Condition: This book is in Very Good Condition. There is little wear to the dust cover, but it is somewhat yellowed with age. The pages are clean and unmarked.

Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our most distinguished journalists, Joan Didion creates a shimmering novel of innocence and evil. 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.

Published 1977 Simon and Schuster, Book Club Edition

213 pages

5.75" X 8.5"