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Play It as It Lays (Paperback or Softback)
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- Condition
- EAN
- 9780374529949
- ISBN
- 0374529949
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- Play It As It Lays : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 7.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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A 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374529949
ISBN-13
9780374529949
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46469451
Product Key Features
Book Title
Play It As It Lays : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3568.O243
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Edition Number
2
Reviews
There 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, "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
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2005-930161
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Fsg Classics Ser.
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