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Play it as it lays : a novel

"Maria Wyeth is an emotional drifter who has become almost anesthetized against pain and pleasure. She finds herself, in her early thirties, radically divorced from her husband, lovers, friends, hew own past and her own future. Actress, daughter, wife, mother, woman: she has played each role to the sound of one hand clapping."--Page 4 of cover.

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  • "Play it as it lays"@it
  • "Play It As It Lays"

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  • ""Maria Wyeth is an emotional drifter who has become almost anesthetized against pain and pleasure. She finds herself, in her early thirties, radically divorced from her husband, lovers, friends, hew own past and her own future. Actress, daughter, wife, mother, woman: she has played each role to the sound of one hand clapping."--Page 4 of cover."@en
  • "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... Didion's classic book that takes the reader into the life of Maria Wyeth, actress, mother, daughter, divorced wife, a woman who has grown tired and desensitized to the fakeness and pain caused by the Hollywood and Las Vegas establishment. It is a life filled to the brim with movie premiers, booze, pills, suicide, casual, empty sex, abortions and nothing else. It is a world of plastic surgery and beautiful people, of Let's do lunch and venomous gossip... The language is stinging, fast-paced, lean, anti-Hollywood. --Christian Engler, et al at Amazon.com."
  • "La vie de Maria est un échec : elle est divorcée, sa carrière d'actrice n'a jamais décollé et sa fille de quatre ans est internée. Pour oublier ou faire le point, elle part dans une Corvette sur les routes de Californie. Elle pleure souvent au volant et roule pendant des heures. Le désert est partout."

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  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Genres littéraires"

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  • "PLAY IT AS IT LAYS"
  • "Play it as it lays : a novel"
  • "Play it as it lays : a novel"@en
  • "Play it as it lays"@en
  • "Play it as it lays"
  • "Graj jak się da"@pl
  • "Graj jak się da"
  • "Play it as it lays a novel"
  • "Play it as it lays, a novel"
  • "Play it as it lays: a novel"@en
  • "Prendila così"@it
  • "Según venga el juego"
  • "Paix' to hopōs paei"
  • "Play it as it lays : a screenplay"@en
  • "Play it as it lays : A novel"
  • "Maria avec et sans rien"
  • "Spel zonder uitkomst"
  • "Maria avec et sans rien : roman"
  • "Lagt kort"@sv
  • "Prendila così : romanzo"
  • "Maria avec ou sans rien"
  • "Play it as it lays : a novel / y Joan Didion"@en
  • "Play it as it lays. Joan Didion"
  • "Play It As It Lays"@en

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