A Book of Common PrayerKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 M02 23 - 272 pages A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean |
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... color I could tell her only that the Hotel del Caribe was said to have Central America's largest ballroom , but Charlotte was not satisfied with that . Nor with the light . CALL THIS MY OWN LETTER FROM BOCA GRANDE . No. 1 15.
... suggested themselves to Victor , Little Victor , who had ordered the passport surreptitiously removed from the Hotel del Caribe safe because its number appeared on a United 3 ACCORDING TO HER PASSPORT, ENTRY VISA, AND ...
Joan Didion. del Caribe safe because its number appeared on a United States Department of State list indicating travelers who were to receive certain special treatment . WHEN CHARLOTTE FIRST CAME TO BOCA GRANDE SHE was referred 123.
... Caribe all night , la norteamericana had woken a doctor at two in the morning to ask the symptoms of infant framboesia . La norteamericana had advised the manager of the Caribe that he was derelict in allowing the maids to fill the ...
... night wind , seeming to concentrate on the scarf as if oblivious to the potholes in the sidewalk and the places where waste ran into the gutters . At the Caribe desk she would ask for her messages in a halting but flawlessly / 26.