Play It As It Lays
of Joan Didion, David Thomson (Introduction)
Description
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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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 231 pages
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication Date November 15th 2005
- First Publication 10/28/70
- Language English
- ISBN 9780374529949
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Los Angeles, California (United States)', 'Mojave Desert (United States)', 'Las Vegas, Nevada (United States)']
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