A Book of Common Prayer

Name: A Book of Common Prayer
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Joan Didion
ISBN: 9780679754862

Joan Didion

11/04/1995
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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Couverture de A Book of Common Prayer par Joan Didion

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur 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. Revue de presse "An articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice." —Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review "A novelist with important things to say about the dislocations of our time.... Joan Didion is stellar." —Newsday Biographie de l'auteur Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.