Play It As It Lays
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A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthless...
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A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what ‘nothing’ means, and keep on playingSomewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed-out actress Maria Wyeth’s life plays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving. In her early thirties, divorced from her husband, dislocated from friends, anesthetized to pain and pleasure, Wheth is a woman who has run out of both desires and motives – the epitome of a generation made ill by too much freedom.More than five decades after its original publication, Play it as it Lays remains a profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking.
Detaljer
Forlag
Fourth Estate Ltd
ISBN
9780007414987
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
224
Udgivelsesdato
10-11-2011
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
2020552
EAN nr.
9780007414987
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
Højde/Dybde (mm)
15
Bredde (mm)
198
Længde (mm)
130
Vægt (g)
160