Play It as It Lays (Second Edition, Revised) to explore what it really

to explore what it really means to feel at home

comes a hilarious and heartwarming story about a goat who keeps getting all the blame

riveting and deeply informative

by the New York Times best-selling author of Friends and Strangers

A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm

Play It as It Lays (Second Edition, Revised) to explore what it reallyA ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that 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