Play It As It Lays
$22.74
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
18 April 2012
Summary
Play It As It Lays: A Dissection of American Disillusionment
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 perpetua…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780007414987 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0007414986 |
| Author: | Joan Didion |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 18 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
‘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 L.A. 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
About The Author
Joan Didion
Joan Didion is one of America’s most respected writers, her work constituting some of the greatest portraits of modern-day American culture. Over the four decades of her career, she has produced widely-acclaimed journalistic essays, personal essays, novels, non-fiction, memoir and screenplays. Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award in 2005.
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