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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374529949
ISBN-139780374529949
eBay Product ID (ePID)46469451
Product Key Features
Edition2
Book TitlePlay It As It Lays : a Novel
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicClassics, General, Literary
FeaturesRevised
GenreFiction
AuthorJoan Didion
Book SeriesFsg Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-930161
ReviewsThere hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanel West . . . A terrifying book., "There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanel West . . . A terrifying book."--John Leonard," The New York Times "Simple, restrained, intelligent, well-structured, witty, irresistibly relentless, forthright in diction, and untainted by the sensational, "Play It As It Lays is a book of outstanding literary quality."-"-Library Journal ""[A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation in a sneer and fear in a handful of atomic dust."--J. R. Frakes," Book World, [A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation in a sneer and fear in a handful of atomic dust., "There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanel West . . . A terrifying book." -- John Leonard, The New York Times "Simple, restrained, intelligent, well-structured, witty, irresistibly relentless, forthright in diction, and untainted by the sensational, Play It As It Lays is a book of outstanding literary quality." -- Library Journal "[A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation in a sneer and fear in a handful of atomic dust." -- J. R. Frakes, Book World, "There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanel West . . . A terrifying book."--John Leonard , The New York Times "Simple, restrained, intelligent, well-structured, witty, irresistibly relentless, forthright in diction, and untainted by the sensational, Play It As It Lays is a book of outstanding literary quality."- -Library Journal " [A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation in a sneer and fear in a handful of atomic dust."--J. R. Frakes , Book World, [A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation in a sneer and fear in a handful of atomic dust., Simple, restrained, intelligent, well-structured, witty, irresistibly relentless, forthright in diction, and untainted by the sensational, Play It As It Lays is a book of outstanding literary quality., "There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanel West . . . A terrifying book."--John Leonard, The New York Times "Simple, restrained, intelligent, well-structured, witty, irresistibly relentless, forthright in diction, and untainted by the sensational,Play It As It Laysis a book of outstanding literary quality."--Library Journal "[A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation in a sneer and fear in a handful of atomic dust."--J. R. Frakes,Book World, "There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanel West . . . A terrifying book."--John Leonard, The New York Times "Simple, restrained, intelligent, well-structured, witty, irresistibly relentless, forthright in diction, and untainted by the sensational, Play It As It Lays is a book of outstanding literary quality."--Library Journal "[A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation in a sneer and fear in a handful of atomic dust."--J. R. Frakes, Book World
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisA 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., A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, "Play It As It Lays" captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui.
LC Classification NumberPS3568.O243
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- 26. Jan. 2023
A tough story about the ugly side of tinsel town.
A great read by the fabulous Joan Didion. This story is a tough and honest view of late 60’s early 70’s Hollywood and an America whose dream of glamor and grandeur has been overplayed and bled dry.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 26. Feb. 2022
Play it as it lays.
Great period novel (60s) era.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
