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Genre/Form: | Fiction novels Novels Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Didion, Joan. Book of common prayer. New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1977 (OCoLC)557633911 Online version: Didion, Joan. Book of common prayer. New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1977 (OCoLC)595027925 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joan Didion |
ISBN: | 0671224913 9780671224912 9780679754862 0679754865 |
OCLC Number: | 2598650 |
Description: | 272 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Joan Didion. |
Abstract:
This 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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