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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Play It As It Lays
Author: DIDION JOAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 19/04/2012
Imprint: HARPER COLLINS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed-out actress Maria Wyeth’s life plays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving. Anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, she is seemingly unaffected by her fraught personal history. In her early thirties, divorced from her husband, dislocated from friends, and somehow detached from her past and future, Wyeth epitomises a generation made ill by too much freedom.Set beyond good and evil – literally in Los Angeles and the barren wastescapes of the Mojave desert, and figuratively in the landscapes of a broken spirit – Play It As It Lays is an immaculately wrought vision of Californian culture on the cusp of the 1970s. Three decades after its original publication, the novel remains an intense dissection of a very particular time and place.
ISBN: 9780007414987
Weight: 164gr
Dimension: 199mm X 131mm
Edition: 01