Joan Didion: Play It As It Lays (Pocket Books, 1981) UChicago ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714538549

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714538549

27 x 36 cm (hardcover

Includes an audio CD with hymns from PFFR

Anthony Elms

Joan Didion: Play It As It Lays (Pocket Books, 1981) UChicago ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714538549A 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