A Book of Common PrayerKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 M02 23 - 272 páginas 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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... tried unsuccessfully to sell to The New Yorker , she characterized Boca Grande as a " land of contrasts . " Boca Grande is not a land of contrasts . On the contrary Boca Grande is relentlessly " the same " : the cathedral is not Spanish ...
... trying to find some economic use for the aluminous laterite which made up the bulk of the deposit , but one by one they got fever or quit or moved to the combine's operation in Venezuela . The last two left in 1965. The road in , which ...
... tried to hum the song that la norteamericana had played over and over again . The song was " Mountain Greenery . " In those first few weeks before any of us had met her she seemed to appear only in the evenings . An hour or so after the ...
... trying to answer . Once I knew Charlotte I realized that although she spoke Spanish she had trouble reading it , and tended to lose the sense of even the simplest newspaper story somewhere in the first paragraph , but it could not have ...
... tried to postpone the camel part , I kept eating and eating , everything had this vile mint taste , I kept trying to distract the sheikh , I kept asking him what I could- " She broke off abruptly and shrugged . " What you could ...