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novel by Joan Didion

For the Patti Scialfa album, see Play It as It Lays (album).

Play It as It Lays is a novel by American writer Joan Didion.

Time magazine included the novel in its list of the best English-language novels from to ^[1] The novel has been credited for helping define modern American fiction^[2] and has been described as an "instant classic".^[3] It is known for depicting the nihilism and the illusory glamor of life in Hollywood,^[4] as well as capturing the landscape and culture of s Los Angeles.

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Play it as it lays summary

The book was adapted into a film starring Tuesday Weld as Maria and Anthony Perkins as BZ. Didion co-wrote the screenplay with her husband, John Gregory Dunne.

Plot

year-old Maria Wyeth's story begins as she is recovering from an implied mental breakdown in a psychiatric hospital in the Los Angeles area.

Her journey oscillates between dizzying and domestic, as her acting career slows and her personal