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Original Title:	Play It as It Lays
ISBN:	0374529949 (ISBN13: 9780374529949)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Maria Wyeth, Carter Lang, BZ
Setting:	Los Angeles, California(United States) Mojave Desert(United States) Las Vegas, Nevada(United States)

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion

Paperback | Pages: 231 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 27117 Users | 2077 Reviews

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Title	:	Play It As It Lays
Author	:	Joan Didion
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 231 pages
Published	:	November 15th 2005 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literary Fiction. Literature. Contemporary. American

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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. 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.

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A beautiful book that you can finish in one sitting. However, don't read this when you are depressed because it can make you more depressed. In fact, it made me stop reading for a while because I felt so sad because I could not shake off from my mind the disheartening scenes in the book. This book that is included in the Time Magazine's 100 Best English Novels from 1923 to 2005. The book is about a 30-year old mother, Maria Wyeth who lives in the 60's America as a struggling actress. She meets

Play it as it Lays' by Joan Didion is a brilliant literary novel. Didion is a superb writer. However, her main character in this novel, a minor Hollywood celebrity, is a waster to me. I despised her. The sixties was not a good time to be an actress. Sexual predation was common no matter how talented a performer was. But I don't think that is what this book is about.I have seen many reviews on this novel. Some are very sympathetic, unlike me, to the main character, thirty-one-year-old Maria

Writing is a hostile act, says Joan Didion, not in this book, just generally, that's a thing she says. She clarifies in this terrific interview: It's hostile in that you're trying to make somebody see something the way you see it, trying to impose your idea, your picture. It's hostile to try to wrench around someone else's mind that way.So here she is wrenching around your mind in a basically hostile bummer of a book. Her lead, Maria, lives more or less permanently at rock bottom - high,

The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself.Joan Didion, quoted not from Play It As It Lays, but from Vanessa Place's LA MEDUSA, which I happened to read just before this*. Here, L.A. is not in flames but a void. Nothingness lies at the heart of everything and everyone here, chilling even when constrained by ostensibly ordinary events. I read this in a single day, which seems to be the way to go, in and around train rides, industrial voids, an encounter with the police, and a

Gambling, domestic violence, sexual abuse, drugs, alcohol, promiscuity, insanity, depression, snakes, suicide. These are all elements of Play It As It Lays, and much, much more. This is stark, wide-eyed, slap in the face prose that grabs the reader and holds you from beginning to end. It's not a pleasant read, no way. Watching Maria Wyeth's life unfold is like watching the proverbial train wreck that you can't look away from. Set in the 1960's, it's about Hollywood and the movie industry; it's

This book is simply brilliant. The fatalism of it's heroine, Maria Wyeth, is absolutely heart-wrenching as she slowly grows more and more tired of life. Didion is a surgeon, each sentence like a scalpel cutting away a cancerous tumor. No one can match her for brutal honesty. While it's a very quick read at just over 200 pages, it deals a swift but heavy blow.

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