Play It as It Lays

A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of «The White Album» and «The Year of Magical Thinking».
Somewhere 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 please, Wheth is a woman who has run out of both desires and motives — the epitome of a generation made i