Description
| Product ID: | 9780008706166 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Collins Modern Classics |
| Title: | Play It As It Lays |
| Authors: | Author: Joan Didion |
| Page Count: | 300 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. 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 playingSomewhere 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-05-23 |