A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion

A Book of Common Prayer by Joan DidionAn engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming novel of innocence and evil. Set in the ruined Central American nation of Boca Grande, A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women and their

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Winner of the Palestine Book Award

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It's about art and writing as a fundamental way of explaining and understanding the world

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her struggle against the social mores of the rural Victorian world which she inhabits and the hypocrisy of the age

Now in a newly independent country intoxicated by its own sense of freedom

and dodging the blows of their brutal overseer and the machinations of the chief wolf

The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal

But beneath the sharp perceptions and acidic humour

As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens

But then her newly hopeful world is threatened