A Book of Common Prayer

Name: A Book of Common Prayer
Author: Joan Didion

by Joan Didion

Prayer book structure explores American coup and moral collapse in fictional nation

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Joan Didion

American journalist and essayist whose reporting on the 1960s in Slouching Towards Bethlehem captured the decade's chaos with cold precision. The White Album continued her dislocated, fragmented examination of California and American culture. The Year of Magical Thinking is a shattering memoir of grief.

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