{"product_id":"collins-modern-classics-play-it-as-it-lays","title":"Collins Modern Classics - Play It As It Lays","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008706166\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2024\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what ‘nothing’ means, and keep on playing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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","brand":"HARPERCOLLINS PUB","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41505479917701,"sku":"PR402703","price":41.6,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNY0BFGQXJMG.jpg?v=1769581016","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/collins-modern-classics-play-it-as-it-lays","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}