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- Play It as It Lays was included in Time magazine’s list of the 100 Best Novels. 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.
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Jan 1, 1970 · Joan Didion. 3.91. 74,940 ratings8,817 reviews. 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.
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Apr 8, 2024 · “Play It As It Lays” ranks No. 1 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time. Read the full list. Yet stasis, implacability, mark Joan Didion ‘s 1970 novel as surely as change.
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Mar 9, 2018 · So opens Joan Didion’s spellbinding novel PLAY IT AS IT LAYS, which has my vote for best first lines of a book. It immediately encapsulates the novel’s mood of weary nihilism and the lawless California setting where morality and the debate of good versus evil are beside the point.
Apr 2, 2022 · 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 ...
Mar 11, 2022 · Akin to the likes of The Great Gatsby, Play It As It Lays is a sharp mediation on American moral decay. Painting a lucid vision of show business in the 1960s, the novel chronicles Maria’s disillusionment with Hollywood and the Dionysian energies that permeate it.
Play It as It Lays is a 1970 novel by American writer Joan Didion. Time magazine included the novel in its list of the "100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005". [1] The novel has been credited for helping define modern American Fiction [2] and has been described as an "instant classic". [3]
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 ...
