Play It as It Lays (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Joan Didion
- First Published: 1970
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Values
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
The Work
Play It as It Lays is Joan Didion’s sixth book and her fourth novel. Its theme is loss, confusion, and disconnection. The locales are Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the Nevada desert, suitable settings for her cinema-influenced story of a star who is married to the producer who starred her in two small movies. Her only grasp on the game of life is the advice she received from her gambling father, who told her to play it as it lays.
Maria (pronounced Mar-EYE-ah) Wyeth is, readers learn on the first page, a woman who sees no sense in the random facts of...
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