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Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion · Booklabria

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Play It as It Lays

WomenContemporary

Play It as It Lays

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First published: 1970
Editions: 35 in 3 languages

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Women
Contemporary
California
Feminism
Classics
Motion picture industry
Set in: California
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Los Angeles- Hollywood

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Editions

35 in 3 languages

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English28 German2 Spanish1

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