Play It as It Lays

Play It as It LaysA 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/15/2005
ISBN: 9780374529949
Pages: 213
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 44