A Book of Common Prayer (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joan Didion
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Parable
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: Boca Grande, a mythical Central American country
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: New Orleans, LA
Characters Discussed
Charlotte Douglas, the protagonist. She is an attractive, upper-middle-class woman aged forty who was born in Hollister, California. She is a Westerner, like many of Didion’s characters. She spent two years at the University of California, Berkeley, where she met and married Warren Bogart, a nontenured English instructor. He is the father of her older daughter, Marin. After a divorce, she married her second husband, Leonard Douglas. She has a second daughter late in life. The baby is born with severe health problems and dies on the journey to Boca...
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