Play It As It Lays (Paperback)

A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of 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.

General

Imprint:	Fourth Estate
Series:	Collins Modern Classics
Release date:	September 2024
Authors:	Joan Didion
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-870616-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Books > Promotion > Manga
LSN:	0-00-870616-6
Barcode:	9780008706166

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