The Resource Play it as it lays : a novel, Joan Didion
Play it as it lays : a novel, Joan Didion
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The item Play it as it lays : a novel, Joan Didion represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, "Play It As It Lays" captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Play it as it lays : a novel
- Title
- Play it as it lays
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Joan Didion
- Subject
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- trueWomen -- Alcohol use
- trueDivorced women
- trueSexuality
- trueMen/women relations
- Women -- California | Los Angeles -- Fiction
- trueFilm industry and trade -- Hollywood, California
- Motion picture industry -- Fiction
- trueRegret in women
- trueCalifornia
- truePsychological fiction
- trueAbortion
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction
- trueAlienation in women
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- trueDrug use
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, "Play It As It Lays" captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui
- Summary
- Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her personal history. She finds herself radically divorced from husband, lovers, friends, her own past and her own future
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 024281
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Didion, Joan
- Dewey number
- 814/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3554.I33
- LC item number
- P57 2005
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- FSG classics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Motion picture industry
- Women
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Play it as it lays : a novel, Joan Didion
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000040593623
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- xvii, 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780007414987
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2005930161
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)62296118
- Label
- Play it as it lays : a novel, Joan Didion
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000040593623
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- xvii, 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780007414987
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2005930161
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)62296118
Subject
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- trueAbortion
- trueAlienation in women
- trueCalifornia
- trueDivorced women
- trueDrug use
- trueFilm industry and trade -- Hollywood, California
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- Motion picture industry -- Fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- trueRegret in women
- trueSexuality
- trueWomen -- Alcohol use
- Women -- California | Los Angeles -- Fiction
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