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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion

Paperback | Pages: 231 pages

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Title	:	Play It As It Lays
Author	:	Joan Didion
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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)

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I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?2.5/5 StarsI felt incredibly dicked around while reading Play It as It Lays. I read all of it a good sign for me but I still felt dicked. I was getting rather restless at times, and I was also reminded of Hemingway (whom I loathe, and whom I believe Ms Didion aspires to be). I just wanted something more to happen! I wanted to feel something more for Maria (ma-ri-a?). Granted, I did feel something, but not enough. Quality review, I

Recently my five y/o daughter caught the first minute of the "Thriller" video. I say the first minute because upon seeing Michael look up at the camera with yellow eyes and fangs she threw her hands up, screamed at the top of her lungs, ran from the room, into her room, ran back into the room (still screaming), out of the room, back in and buried her head into the safety of my comforting lap (still screaming). Now I realize this is most people's reaction to seeing Micheal's post '90s decomposing

Wildly disenchanted 1960s Hollywood.This is a story about Maria, and to tell more is to ruin the swirl of consciousness. It is stark, the tarnished and penumbral side of glamour. How hard won "glamour" is. The winners, the losers, the rising and the falling; they all portray the tenuous hold each has. So close to the edge.Honestly, I don't recommend this story to anyone that isn't in a good headspace because it's brutal in a nihilistic manner. That said, it is a fantastic voice, telling of a

Kind of fascinating to see that concise, tip-of-the-iceberg prose of Didion's essays applied to a piece of fiction. The heroine, who seems to share the author's withering intelligence, can't enjoy the decadence that her friends have resigned themselves to, but she isn't much good with the wholesome life either, so she carves out a mostly solitary existence made up of sleeping next to her swimming pool, compulsively hitting the highway (she puts less thought into zipping over to Vegas [distance:

Joan Didion is a brilliant and fascinating writer. Her writing is razor sharp and dissects American culture in a way that is both blistering and brutally refreshing. Her journalism is of great importance, with her being responsible for the earliest mainstream media article suggesting The Central Park Five had been wrongly convicted and her reportage that brought Californian subcultures to the forefront in the 1960s.Play It As It Lays is set in 1960's California and opens with the story of Maria

The first of her fiction that Ive read, and it has the bleakly stylish pleasures I might have predicted from prior exposure to the essays her feel for ominous banality, for the casual nihilism of the rootless (she insinuates where Isherwood rants, and beats him on the Zen of Freeways), for the grotesque contrast of a characters obvious ongoing crack-up and the evasive, anesthetized trivialities she speaks in. Published in 1970 but feels radically spare and minimal but I dont know why I say

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