{"product_id":"9780007414994_play-it-as-it-lays","title":"Play it as it Lays","description":"\u003cp\u003eA ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what ‘nothing’ means, and keep on playing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomewhere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than five decades after its original publication, \u003cem\u003ePlay it as it Lays \u003c\/em\u003eremains a profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of \u003cem\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joan Didion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284819460245,"sku":"9780007414994","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007414994.png?v=1780032850","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007414994_play-it-as-it-lays","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}