{"product_id":"play-it-as-it-lays","title":"Play It as It Lays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's \u003ci\u003ePlay It as It Lays\u003c\/i\u003e captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0374529949\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780374529949\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Didion, Joan, Thomson, David, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Nov 2005)","offer_id":45659173355717,"sku":"9780374529949","price":17.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780374529949.jpg?v=1768906487","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/play-it-as-it-lays","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}