Play It As It Lays
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Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what ‘nothing’ means, and keep on playing Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed-out actress Maria Wyeth’s life plays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving. In her early thirties, divorced from her husband, dislocated from friends, anesthetized to pain and pleasure, Wheth is a woman who has run out of both desires and motives – the epitome of a generation made ill by too much freedom. More than five decades after its original publication, Play it as it Lays remains a profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking.‘She writes with a razor … You are both frightened and astonished … It seems to me just about perfect, so heartbreaking and inescapable’ New York Times
‘Didion’s modant lucidity is like LA. sunlight, a thing so bright sometimes it hurts’ Time, Top 100 Novels of All Time
‘For a few decades, this was my favourite modern American novel … revelatory’ Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho
JOAN DIDION is the author of five novels and nine books of nonfiction, including The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. Born in Sacramento, California, Didion now lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007414987 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007414986 |
| Titel | Play It As It Lays |
| Autor | Joan Didion |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2011-11-10 |
| Seitenanzahl | 224 |
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