Bibliograph

Play it as it lays, a novel, Joan Didion

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Play it as it lays, a novel, Joan Didion

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Play it as it lays

Oclc number

62296118

Responsibility statement

Joan Didion

Series statement

FSG classics

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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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