
Play It as It Lays
- 214 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1970
- 37 editions
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1 About this book
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.
Good for readers who want: a classic and literary fiction.
- Classics
- Literary fiction
- Feminism
- Women
- California
2 About Joan Didion
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