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Play It As It Lays

Paperback • 2005 • English

Play It As It Lays

By Joan Didion

2 Ratings • 4.5 of 5

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About the book

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's 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, r...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Narrative theme: Sense of place

Book details

ISBN

9780374529949

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Play It As It Lays

Format

Paperback

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2 Ratings • 4.5 of 5

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