The Resource Play it as it lays, : a novel, Joan Didion
Play it as it lays, : a novel, Joan Didion
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Label
- Play it as it lays, : a novel
- Title
- Play it as it lays,
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Joan Didion
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Didion, Joan
- Dewey number
- 813/.5/4
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
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- PZ4.D56
- PS3554.I33
- LC item number
- Pl
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Motion picture industry
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Women
- Motion picture industry
- Women
- California
- California
- Label
- Play it as it lays, : a novel, Joan Didion
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Extent
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036825861
- Label
- Play it as it lays, : a novel, Joan Didion
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Extent
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036825861
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