TY  - BOOK
AU  - Didion,Joan
TI  - Play it as it lays : : a novel
T2  - The Pop Lit Book Club
SN  - 9780007414987
AV  - PS3554.I33 Z69 2009
U1  - 813.54 DID 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - 4th Estate
KW  - Motion picture industry
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - California--Los Angeles--Hollywood
KW  - 21st century
N1  - 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
ER  -