Cosy mystery set in SCARBOROUGH
Play It as It Lays
Location(s): California
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 1960s
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.
‘Benny called for a round of Cuba Libres and I gave him some chips to play for me and went to the ladies’ room and never came back.’
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 ill by too much freedom.
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