Play it as it lays a novel
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, 'Play It as It Lays' captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil - literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the b...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2005.
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| Series: | FSG classics.
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