New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1970)

First Edition.

Very Good. Slight lean to the spine, creased back jacket flap, and some wear to the edges.

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 the reader.

Set in a place beyond good and evil--literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert--but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul, it remains, more than three decades after its original publication, a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.

JOAN DIDION is highly regarded as a writer of both nonfiction and fiction and received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2007. She lives in New York City.