Joan Didion
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.
Benny called for a round of Cuba Libres and I gave him some chips to play for me and went to the ladies’ room and never came back.
Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed-out actress Maria Wyeth’s life plays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving. In her early thirties, divorced from her husband, dislocated from friends, anesthetized to pain and please, Wheth is a woman who has run out of both desires and motives – the epitome of a generation made ill by too much freedom.
Reviews of Play It As It Lays
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- ‘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
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The Year of Magical Thinking (Collins Modern Classics)
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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South and West: From A Notebook
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The White Album
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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South and West: From A Notebook
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South and West: From A Notebook
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South and West: From A Notebook
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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The Last Thing He Wanted
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Blue Nights
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Where I Was From
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion based on her Memoir
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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Where I Was From
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A Book of Common Prayer
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Play it as it Lays
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A Book of Common Prayer
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Blue Nights
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Blue Nights
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Blue Nights
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Live and Learn
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