Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion Groundswell Speaker 2024 Guardian Best Poetry Books of

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Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion Groundswell Speaker 2024 Guardian Best Poetry Books ofA ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what nothing means, and keep on playing Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed out actress Maria Wyeths 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