Title: Play It As It Lays Pdf A Novel (FSG Classics)
Author: Joan Didion
Published Date: 2005-11-15
Page: 213
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.
Joan Didion s writing is, as always, amazing. Spare, yet evocative. Straightforward, yet able to describe the complexities of being human.With Harvey Weinstein and other s behaviour finally coming to light, this book is worth reading now more than ever.It s Didion, so this isn t a simple case of good versus evil, but it does give some idea of what it is like to live among the powerful men of Hollywood.Put simply........it's badly dated.Wow! This is an absolutely stunning novel. If you only read one book this year, let it be this. Didion gets to the heart of depression with Maria's painful life.
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