Play It As It Lays
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3.5 • 6 Ratings
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Not good
There is no question about Joan Didion’s talent in writing nonfiction, but the only remarkable thing about this novel is to give an example of how someone can write good dialogue and be unable to write fiction. It reads like passages of professional screenwriting but without a story arc, without literary elements, without character development, and without depth. Not much point really.