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A Book of Common Prayer

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Joan Didion・・Ended

Updated: March 15, 1977

Content length: 272 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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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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🌟 Editor’s Pick — Why It Belongs on Your Shelf

Joan Didion’s 1977 novel is a taut, diamond-cut study of witness and complicity. Set in the fictional Central American nation of Boca Grande, it’s narrated by Grace Strasser-Mendana, who opens with the indelible vow—“I will be her witness”—to tell the story of Charlotte Douglas, an American unmoored after her daughter vanishes into radical politics. Didion fuses political upheaval with private grief in prose noted for its telegraphic swiftness—lean, piercing, unforgettable. If you want literary fiction that stares down chaos without blinking, this belongs on your shelf.