Description: In this Conradian masterpiece of American innocence and evil set in the fictional Central American country of Boca Grande, two American women face the harsh realities, political and personal, of living on the edge in a land with an uncertain future. Writing with her signature telegraphic swiftness, the author creates a terrifying commentary on an age of conscienceless authority.
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"[Didion's] most ambitious project in fiction, and her most successful ... [it] glows with a golden aura of well-wrought classical tragedy." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
"An articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review"A novelist with important things to say about the dislocations of our time.... Joan Didion is stellar." --Newsday