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Friday, July 3, 2009
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Joan Didion is one of my favorite writers. Everything she does is magnificent, including this novel of a Hollywood actress who drifts through life with a detachment that is startlingly bleak. It is stunning and depressing.
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