A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"[Didion's] most ambitious project in fiction, and her most successful ... glows with a golden aura of well-wrought classical tragedy." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of Boca Grande's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. "Immaculate of history, innocent of politics," Charlotte 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.
A Book of Common Prayer is written with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made Didion one of our most distinguished journalists.
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The Stranger
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Never Let Me Go
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The Road
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Beloved
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The Bluest Eye
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In Cold Blood
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Lolita
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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Blood Meridian
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The Remains of the Day
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All the Pretty Horses
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Song of Solomon
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The Fire Next Time
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Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick
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No Country for Old Men
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Sula
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As I Lay Dying
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Norwegian Wood
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Kafka on the Shore
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Giovanni's Room
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Independent People
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Perfume
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
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A Fine Balance
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The Plague
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The Sound and the Fury
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1Q84
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The Woman Warrior
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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Ulysses
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White Teeth
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The English Patient
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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The Crossing
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The Master and Margarita
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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Possession
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The Fall
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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Jazz
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The Buried Giant
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Absalom, Absalom!
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Written on the Body
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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The Plot Against America
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Cities of the Plain
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A Mercy
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679754862 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679754865 |
| Title | A Book of Common Prayer |
| Author | Joan Didion |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1995-04-11 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |
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