Play it as it lays : a novel
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TextSeries: Publication details: London 4th Estate c2007.Description: 213 p. ; 20 cm.; PbkISBN: - 9780007414987
- 813.54 DID 22
- PS3554.I33 Z69 2009
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| 813.54 DEN Choice / | 813.54 DES Inheritance of loss / | 813.54 DIA Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / | 813.54 DID Play it as it lays | 813.54 DIV One amazing thing / | 813.54 DIV Mistress of spices / | 813.54 DIV Palace of illusions: a novel / |
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It As It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui.
Maria Wyeth is an emotional drifter who has become almost anesthetized against pain and pleasure. She finds herself, in her early thirties, radically divorced from husbands, lovers, friends, her own past and her own future. Actress, daughter, wife, mother, woman: she has played each role to the sound of one hand clapping.
Play It As It Lays is set in a place beyond good and evil, literally in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and the barren wastes of the Mojave, but figuratively in the lanscape of an arid soul. Two decades after its original publication, it remains a profoundly disturbing novel.
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