Play It As It Lays

Play It As It Lays

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction | Paperback Published on: 10/11/2011
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Play It As It Lays
A perfect novel
A brilliant, spare, understated depiction of an ageing actress’s plunge into depression. In so few words, Didion is able to perfectly evoke a place, a time... READ MORE
Michael at Birmingham New St

Synopsis

A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking.

One thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what ‘nothing’ means, and keep on playing

Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed-out actress Maria Wyeth’s life plays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving. In her early thirties, divorced from her husband, dislocated from friends, anesthetized to pain and pleasure, Wheth is a woman who has run out of both desires and motives – the epitome of a generation made ill by too much freedom.

More than five decades after its original publication, Play it as it Lays remains a profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking.

  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780007414987
  • Number of pages: 224
  • Weight: 150g
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm

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Play It As It Lays
Amazing
Just an incredible book! Joan writes with such elegance and allure that it is really difficult to put down any of her books!! I loved this one so so much
Dottie Fennelly-Hunt
Play It As It Lays
An Incredible Book
One of my favourite books would have to be the spellbinding novel Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion. It is a rapid and mesmerising story from a literary le... READ MORE
Dottie Fennelly-Hunt
Play It As It Lays
raw and insightful
both stripped back and nuanced, I loved this book.
Martha Conway