{"product_id":"9780008706166","title":"Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion","description":"\u003cp\u003eA ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking.                         One thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what `nothing' means, and keep on playing                    Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed-out actress Maria Wyeth's life plays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving. In her early thirties, divorced from her husband, dislocated from friends, anesthetized to pain and pleasure, Wheth is a woman who has run out of both desires and motives - the epitome of a generation made ill by too much freedom.             More than five decades after its original publication, Play it as it Lays remains a profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joan Didion","offers":[{"title":"300 pages \/ 23\/05\/2024 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56973088096631,"sku":"9780008706166","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780008706166.jpg?v=1775213867","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780008706166","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}