This website uses cookies.
Play It As It Lays cover

Play It As It Lays

by

Joan Didion's 'Play It As It Lays' is a seminal work of American fiction that explores themes of existential despair and the disintegration of personal identity in the context of 1960s Hollywood. The novel follows Maria Wyeth, a disillusioned actress navigating a world of superficiality and moral ambiguity.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication year
2005
ISBN-13
9780374529949
Language
English
Subjects
American Literature1960s CultureExistential FictionHollywoodPsychological DramaFeminist LiteratureSocial CritiqueIdentityDespair

  • Have:3
  • Want:—
  • Avg Rating:—
  • Ratings:—

Who has this book

3 Connections

Recommendations

The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
by Joan Didion
Blue Nights
Blue Nights
by Joan Didion
Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
by Yoel Hoffmann
Babbitt
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
by Alexandra Kleeman
Nightbitch
Nightbitch
by Rachel Yoder
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
Last Summer in the City
Last Summer in the City
by Gianfranco Calligarich
The House on Marshland
The House on Marshland
by Louise Glück
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
The Shards
The Shards
by Bret Easton Ellis
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
by William S. Burroughs
Girlhood
Girlhood
by Melissa Febos
An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
Didion and Babitz: The Women Who Ruled LA
Didion and Babitz: The Women Who Ruled LA
by Lili Anolik
The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Star
by Clarice Lispector
Dept. of Speculation
Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
The Price of Salt
The Price of Salt
by Patricia Highsmith
Pilgrim Bell
Pilgrim Bell
by Kaveh Akbar
We Live Here Now
We Live Here Now
by Sarah Pinborough
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pale Fire
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
The Carrying
The Carrying
by Ada Limón
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
White Out
White Out
by Michael W. Clune
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Lifting Belly
Lifting Belly
by Gertrude Stein

Market

Community Notes