A Book of Common PrayerWriting 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. |
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Page 196
... seemed to Charlotte the " enchant- ing " children selling contraband Marlboro cigarettes out- side the Caribe and there was what seemed to Charlotte the " amusing " accordionist playing " You're the Cream in My Coffee " in the Caribe ...
... seemed to Charlotte the " enchant- ing " children selling contraband Marlboro cigarettes out- side the Caribe and there was what seemed to Charlotte the " amusing " accordionist playing " You're the Cream in My Coffee " in the Caribe ...
Page 203
... seemed to me curious and decadent . The dissolve through the goldenrod . The romance of the rose . Equally specious . As usual I favor a mechanical view . What Charlotte and Gerardo did that afternoon was reverse the entire neutron ...
... seemed to me curious and decadent . The dissolve through the goldenrod . The romance of the rose . Equally specious . As usual I favor a mechanical view . What Charlotte and Gerardo did that afternoon was reverse the entire neutron ...
Page 246
... seemed to be waiting for something . " A couple of people I didn't know . " She still seemed to be waiting for something . " And six FBI . ” She had stopped in front of a building on Calle 11 and still she seemed to be waiting . " It ...
... seemed to be waiting for something . " A couple of people I didn't know . " She still seemed to be waiting for something . " And six FBI . ” She had stopped in front of a building on Calle 11 and still she seemed to be waiting . " It ...
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