Play It As It Lays: A Novel (FSG Classics) - Paperback
Author: Didion, Joan ; Thomson, David
Publication Date: 11/15/2005
Format: Paperback
A ruthless 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. 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.
Maria Wyeth is an emotional drifter who has become almost anesthetized against pain and pleasure. She is radically divorced from her husband, lovers, friends, past and future, a woman finally touched only by her neurally damaged daughter, Kate, and by the child she has willfully aborted.
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Author: Didion, Joan ; Thomson, David
Publication Date: 11/15/2005
Format: Paperback
A ruthless 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. 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.
Maria Wyeth is an emotional drifter who has become almost anesthetized against pain and pleasure. She is radically divorced from her husband, lovers, friends, past and future, a woman finally touched only by her neurally damaged daughter, Kate, and by the child she has willfully aborted.
