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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 husbands, lovers, friends, her own past and her own future. Actress, daughter, wife, mother, woman: she has played each role to the sound of one hand clapping.
Play It As It Lays is set in a place beyond good and evil, literally in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and the barren wastes of the Mojave, but figuratively in the lanscape of an arid soul. Two decades after its original publication, it remains a profoundly disturbing 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 husbands, lovers, friends, her own past and her own future. Actress, daughter, wife, mother, woman: she has played each role to the sound of one hand clapping.
Play It As It Lays is set in a place beyond good and evil, literally in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and the barren wastes of the Mojave, but figuratively in the lanscape of an arid soul. Two decades after its original publication, it remains a profoundly disturbing novel.
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Play It As It Lays
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ISBN-13: | 9780007414987 |
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Publisher: | Fourth Estate, Limited |
Publication date: | 11/28/2011 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d) |