A Book of Common PrayerSimon and Schuster, 1977 - 272 halaman Writing 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. |
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... stay in the same house with Warren . Leonard moved Warren to a motel in the Marina , and paid for the room a week in advance . Charlotte stayed upstairs until they were gone . I understand what Warren Bogart could do to Charlotte ...
... stay in the same house with Warren . Leonard moved Warren to a motel in the Marina , and paid for the room a week in advance . Charlotte stayed upstairs until they were gone . I understand what Warren Bogart could do to Charlotte ...
Halaman 195
... stayed , there was the match- box hotel in which one did not stay . There was the " best " restaurant , there was the " second - best " restaurant , there were the districts in which nurses pushed baby carriages on Sunday afternoons and ...
... stayed , there was the match- box hotel in which one did not stay . There was the " best " restaurant , there was the " second - best " restaurant , there were the districts in which nurses pushed baby carriages on Sunday afternoons and ...
Halaman 256
... stay . Not " stay " precisely . " Not leave " is more like it . my " I walked away from places all life and I'm not go- ing to walk away from here , " is exactly what she said to him . She had said it to him at the clinic and she had ...
... stay . Not " stay " precisely . " Not leave " is more like it . my " I walked away from places all life and I'm not go- ing to walk away from here , " is exactly what she said to him . She had said it to him at the clinic and she had ...
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