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Play It as It Lays - (FSG Classics) 2nd Edition by Joan Didion (Paperback)

Play It as It Lays - (FSG Classics) 2nd Edition by  Joan Didion (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's <i>Play It as It Lays</i> captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. </b> <p/>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanel West . . . A terrifying book." --<i>John Leonard, The New York Times</i> <p/>"Simple, restrained, intelligent, well-structured, witty, irresistibly relentless, forthright in diction, and untainted by the sensational, <i>Play It As It Lays</i> is a book of outstanding literary quality." --<i>Library Journal</i> <p/>"[A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation in a sneer and fear in a handful of atomic dust." --<i>J. R. Frakes, Book World</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Joan Didion</b> is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as several screenplays written with her late husband, John Gregory Dunne. Her books include <i>The White Album</i>, <i>Play It As It Lays</i>, and <i>Slouching Towards Bethlehem. </i>She lives in New York City.

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