A Book of Common Prayer - (Vintage International) by Joan Didion (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this Conradian masterpiece of American innocence and evil set in the fictional Central American country of Boca Grande, two American women face the harsh realities, political and personal, of living on the edge in a land with an uncertain future. Writing with her signature telegraphic swiftness, the author creates a terrifying commentary on an age of conscienceless authority.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, <b><b>from the bestselling, award-winning author of <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> and <b><i>Let Me Tell You What I Mean</i></b></b></b></b> <p/><b>[Didion's] most ambitious project in fiction, and her most successful ... glows with a golden aura of well-wrought classical tragedy." <i>--Los Angeles Times Book Review</i></b> <p/>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. <p/><i>A Book of Common Prayer</i> is written with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made Didion one of our most distinguished journalists.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>[Didion's] most ambitious project in fiction, and her most successful ... [it] glows with a golden aura of well-wrought classical tragedy." <i> --Los Angeles Times Book Review</i> <p/>An articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice. --Joyce Carol Oates, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></p><p>A novelist with important things to say about the dislocations of our time.... Joan Didion is stellar. --<i>Newsday</i><br><i><br></i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>JOAN DIDION is the author of five novels, ten books of nonfiction, and a play. Her book <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> won the National Book Award in 2005. She lives in New York. <p/></p>
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