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Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion (1995, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679754865
ISBN-139780679754862
eBay Product ID (ePID)825669
Product Key Features
Book TitleBook of Common Prayer
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHispanic & Latino, Family Life, Small Town & Rural, Religious
Publication Year1995
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorJoan Didion
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-040747
Reviews"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, 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, 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, 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
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisWriting 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3554.I33B6 1995
