Spare, elegant, and terrifying, Play It as It Lays is the unforgettable story of a woman and a society come undone.
Play It as It Lays by"Joan Didion"
A harrowing tale of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and a young woman in pursuit of oblivion by the New York Times–bestselling author of The White Album. Spare, elegant, and terrifying, Play It as It Lays is the unforgettable story of a woman and a society come undone. Raised in the ghost town of Silver Wells, Nevada, Maria Wyeth is an ex-model and the star of two films directed by her estranged husband, Carter Lang. But in the spiritual desert of 1960s Los Angeles, Maria has lost the plot of her own life. Her daughter, Kate, was born with an “aberrant chemical in her brain.” Her long-troubled marriage has slipped beyond repair, and her disastrous love affairs and strained friendships provide little comfort. Her only escape is to get in her car and drive the freeway—in the fast lane with the radio turned up high—until it runs out “somewhere no place at all where the flawless burning concrete just stopped.” But every ride to nowhere, every sleepless night numbed by pills and booze and sex, makes it harder for Maria to find the meaning in another day. Told with profound economy of style and a “vision as bleak and precise as Eliot’s in ‘The Wasteland’,” Play It as It Lays ruthlessly dissects the dark heart of the American dream (The New York Times). It is a searing masterpiece “from one of the very few writers of our time who approaches her terrible subject with absolute seriousness, with fear and humility and awe” (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review).
Play It as It Lays
By:"Joan Didion"
Published on 2017-05-09 by Open Road Media
BOOKS ID : OEDFDgAAQBAJ
Ebook Title : Play It as It Lays
ETAG : n+YN/OXj4oU
ISBN_13 Code : 9781504045674
ISBN_10 Code : 150404567X
Book Print Type : BOOK
Rank : 31 for keyword gambling quotes
Book Author :"Joan Didion"
Publisher : Open Road Media
Book Pages Count : 240
Print Type : BOOK
Book's Categories :"Fiction"
Books Language : en
Text to Speech Access : ALLOWED
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