Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion - 1973

Spine is square and tight, but has some fairly heavy creasing. Interior is clean and unmarked. Moderate wear to the covers, including edge-wear and areas of light rubbing and creasing. 'I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking,' Didion once said, and the voice of Maria Wyeth in this novel's title passage connotes that revelatory moment: 'It goes as it lays, don't do it the hard way. My father advised me that life itself was a crap game. It was one of two lessons I learned as a child. The other was that overturning a rock was apt to reveal a rattlesnake.' Fantastic UK movie tie-in edition featuring Tuesday Weld's Maria Wyeth in a collage by designer Ivan Holmes. 168 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.