A Book of Common PrayerKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 11.4.1995 - 272 sivua 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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... Boca Grande is the name of the country and Boca Grande is also the name of the city , as if the place defeated the imagination of even its first settler . At least once each year , usually on the afternoon of the Anniversary of Inde ...
... Boca Grande exported copra , Charlotte said . Principally your own . Boca Grande did export copra , principally my own , and , in about the same dollar volume , Boca Grande also ex- ported parrots , anaconda skins , and macramé shawls ...
... Boca Grande means " big mouth , " or big bay , and describes the country's principal physical feature pre- cisely as it appears . Almost everything in Boca Grande describes itself precisely as it appears , as as if any ambiguity in the ...