Play It As It Lays: A Novel-new Lester L. Laminack Multifaceted Perspective

Multifaceted Perspective

Starr Argues

Ansi Standards Are Discussed When Appropriate

Beautiful In Their Own Right

Play It As It Lays: A Novel-new Lester L. Laminack Multifaceted PerspectiveA Dissection Of American Life In The Late 1960S, Play It As It Lays Captures The Mood Of An Entire Generation. Joan Didion Chose Hollywood To Serve As Her Microcosm Of Contemporary Society And Exposed A Culture Characterized By Emptiness And Ennui. 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 Husband, Lovers, Friends, Her Own Past And