Play It As It Lays -- Joan Didion, Paperback

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's 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.

Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/15/2005
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780374529949

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 44

About the Author
Joan Didion 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 The White Album, Play It As It Lays, and Slouching Towards Bethlehem. She lives in New York City.