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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.

Play It As It Lays

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A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical... Read more

    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    Publication Date: 5/23/2024
    ISBN13: 9780008706166, 978-0008706166
    ISBN10: 0008706166

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    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.

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