Sold out but wanted!
More about the book
Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, has-been actress Maria Wyeth's life is going off the rails. But her permanent catatonic state leaves her a mere bystander to her own downward spiral. Observing her life with detachment, Wyeth epitomises a generation left lost and inert by too much freedom.
Book purchase
Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
- Language
- Released
- 2011
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
We’ll email you as soon as we track it down.
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- Play it as it Lays
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joan Didion
- Publisher
- 4th Estate
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0007414986
- ISBN13
- 9780007414987
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, USA, American Literature, Feminism, Adapted for Film, Hollywood, Deserts
- First published
- 1970
- Original title
- Play It As It Lays
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, has-been actress Maria Wyeth's life is going off the rails. But her permanent catatonic state leaves her a mere bystander to her own downward spiral. Observing her life with detachment, Wyeth epitomises a generation left lost and inert by too much freedom.





