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A Book of Common Prayer
by Joan Didion
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2002. Like New. Collector's Edition. Includes Certificate of Authenticity. SIGNED on the signature page by Joan Didion. The book is tight with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in leather with raised bands to the spine, 22 kt accents, gilded pages, silk moiré endpapers, hubbed spine, and sewn-in satin bookmark and printed on archival paper. A few nicks to the side and two faint scratches to the bottom fore-edges, else gold gilt to page edges is Fine. 269 pages. 5¾ x 8¾ " tall.
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.
Synopsis
A Book of Common Prayer is a 1977 novel by Joan Didion. It is a story of both personal and political tragedy in the imaginary Central American country of "Boca Grande. " In 1983 Didion would publish Salvador, a book of essays on corruption and violence in El Salvador; the fiction and non-fiction reflect a similar perspective of rage and despair.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4382
- Title
- A Book of Common Prayer
- Author
- Joan Didion
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Easton Press
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, CT
- Date Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 269
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.75
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Signed books, Easton Press, Joan Didion
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books;
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Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Tight
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- New
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