Play It as It Lays
by Joan Didion
- Used
- good
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140035621
- ISBN 13
- 9780140035629
- Seller
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Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Spine is square and tight, but has some fairly heavy creasing. Interior is clean and unmarked. Moderate wear to the covers, including edge-wear and areas of light rubbing and creasing. 'I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking,' Didion once said, and the voice of Maria Wyeth in this novel's title passage connotes that revelatory moment: 'It goes as it lays, don't do it the hard way. My father advised me that life itself was a crap game. It was one of two lessons I learned as a child. The other was that overturning a rock was apt to reveal a rattlesnake.' Fantastic UK movie tie-in edition featuring Tuesday Weld's Maria Wyeth in a collage by designer Ivan Holmes. 168 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.
Synopsis
Play It as It Lays is a 1970 novel by the American writer Joan Didion. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Goodbar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 930762
- Title
- Play It as It Lays
- Author
- Joan Didion
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK Ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140035621
- ISBN 13
- 9780140035629
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Movie tie-in
- an edition of a book which is produced in conjunction with a movie which is usually based on the book, often with a cover image...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.