A Book of Common Prayer Author:Joan Didion Joan Didion, the author of Run River, Slouching Towards Bethlehem and Play It as It Lays, has firmly established her position as a major American writer. In her new novel, A Book of Common Prayer, she has written her strongest and most powerful book to date, a book set in California and Central America and tuned to the currents of several kinds ... more »of revolution.« less