Play it as it lays : a novel
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
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xvii, 213 pages ; 21 cm.
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English

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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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Didion, J. (2005). Play it as it lays: a novel (Pbk. ed.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Didion, Joan. 2005. Play It As It Lays: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Didion, Joan. Play It As It Lays: A Novel Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Didion, Joan. Play It As It Lays: A Novel Pbk. ed., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

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