Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

Maria Wyeth is an actress whose career has stalled, whose marriage is ending, whose daughter is institutionalised, and who spends her days driving the freeway system of Los Angeles because the merges require concentration.

Didion writes it in eighty-four chapters, some a single paragraph, with white space doing most of the emotional work. Nothing is explained and almost nothing is felt out loud. It is the coldest novel about despair in American literature, and by some distance the most stylish.

A modern classic, and the novel that made Didion's reputation as a novelist rather than an essayist.

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