In her inimitably terse style, embellished only by her command of visual language, Joan Didion penned Play It As It Lays, the story of an unfulfilled life. As the bridge between the modern and postmodern periods, Didion has always had one foot in the hard lines of the past, and one foot in the ambiguity of language that dominated postwar literature. In this first edition copy of the hauntingly spare Play It As It Lays readers can latch onto the contradictions and nuances of Didion’s work, and its legacy.
