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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... turned Acapulco around overnight . " Victor stared at the emerald as if transfixed . Tuck Bradley snapped the toothpick in two . I looked away . " I'm not sure Mrs. Douglas realizes the problems , " Tuck Bradley said . " Think ...
... turned Acapulco around overnight . " Victor stared at the emerald as if transfixed . Tuck Bradley snapped the toothpick in two . I looked away . " I'm not sure Mrs. Douglas realizes the problems , " Tuck Bradley said . " Think ...
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Joan Didion. associated it with events in France and Russia that had probably turned out all right , otherwise why ... turning blue . Char- lotte did it with a boning knife plunged first in a vat of boiling rice . A few nights later the ...
Joan Didion. associated it with events in France and Russia that had probably turned out all right , otherwise why ... turning blue . Char- lotte did it with a boning knife plunged first in a vat of boiling rice . A few nights later the ...
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... turned out Charlotte did not need to explain the sentence to Warren either because when he called from New York at two that morning he had already heard the tape and , like Leonard , he had just one thing to say about the operation ...
... turned out Charlotte did not need to explain the sentence to Warren either because when he called from New York at two that morning he had already heard the tape and , like Leonard , he had just one thing to say about the operation ...
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