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Play It As It Lays: A Novel
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MSRP: $14.00
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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ISBN13: 9780374529949
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Additional Play It As It Lays: A Novel Information
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Two decades after its original publication, it remains a profoundly disturbing novel. "There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanel West .
A terrifying book."—John Leonard, The New York Times
"Simple, restrained, intelligent, well-structured, witty, irresistibly relentless, forthright in diction, and untainted by the sensational, Play It As It Lays captures the mood of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication, it remains a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the landscape of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui.
Maria Wyeth is an emotional drifter who has become almost anesthetized against pain and pleasure. A terrifying book."—John Leonard, The New York City. A 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. Actress, daughter, wife, mother, woman: she has played each role to the sound of one hand clapping.
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. A terrifying book."—John Leonard, The New York City. A 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 and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui. Maria Wyeth is an emotional drifter who has become almost anesthetized against pain and pleasure. Actress, daughter, wife, mother, woman: she has played each role to the sound of one hand clapping.
Play It As It Lays is a book of outstanding literary quality."—Library Journal
"[A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation 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 landscape of an arid soul.
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