{"product_id":"play-it-as-it-lays-collins-modern-classics","title":"Play It As It Lays (Collins Modern Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003eOne thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what 'nothing' means, and keep on playing\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \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\n          \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\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 300 pages | Published May 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63977932652893,"sku":"9780008706166","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9780008706166.jpg?v=1774447007","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/play-it-as-it-lays-collins-modern-classics","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}