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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion''s 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.

Play It As It Lays

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    A Paperback / softback by Joan Didion, MR David Thomson

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 15 November 2005
      ISBN-13 9780374529949
      978-0374529949
      ISBN-10 0374529949
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion''s 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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