Play It As It Lays - Hardcover
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
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Joan Didion lives in New York City with her husband, author John Gregory Dunne. Her previous novels include Democracy, Run, River and A Book of Common Prayer.
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'There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanael West. She writes with a razor.' John Leonard, New York Times 'A stunning, hypnotically readable novel.' Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0374234442
- ISBN 13 9780374234447
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages214
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PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
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