{"product_id":"play-it-as-it-lays-1","title":"Play It As It Lays","description":"\u003cp\u003eA ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what 'nothing' means, and keep on playing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSomewhere 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 pleasure, Wheth is a woman who has run out of both desires and motives - the epitome of a generation made ill by too much freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore than five decades after its original publication, Play it as it Lays remains 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Play It As It Lays","offer_id":45719134142661,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-00-870616-6.jpg?v=1769555542","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/play-it-as-it-lays-1","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}