Play It As It Lays Elaine Hsieh Chou With an introduction by Banana

With an introduction by Banana Yoshimoto

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BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO GUARDIAN AND THE SPECTATOR The final novel from one of the greatest writers of the past half century

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Play It As It Lays Elaine Hsieh Chou With an introduction by BananaA 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. 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