{"product_id":"books-play-it-as-it-lays-by-joan-didion","title":"Play It As It Lays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003eA profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of \u003cem\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003eOne thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what ‘nothing’ means, and keep on playing\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eSomewhere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eMore than five decades after its original publication, \u003cem\u003ePlay it as it Lays \u003c\/em\u003eremains a profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of \u003cem\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53766926172433,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780007414987.jpg?v=1783931870","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-play-it-as-it-lays-by-joan-didion","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}