Play It As It Lays: A Novel (2nd Edition, Revised)Joan Didion, David Thomson (Introduction by) BACKLIST Nov 15, 2005 Trade Paperback Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature American 20th Century Fiction Classics 240 pages Series: FSG Classics 21 cm H 14 cm W 1. 7 cm T 195 g Wt A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It As It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the emptiness and ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that both blisters and haunts