Play It As It Lays 1st Edition

A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960's. The central character if Maria Wyeth, a Hollywood actress in her early thirties. Fate has, in many ways, been unkind to her - her mother died in a car crash, her career is in trouble, her marriage to an uncaring husband is also failing, and later divorces and she has a mentally handicapped daughter in an institution. Anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, she is seemingly unaffected by her fraught personal history. Wyeth epitomises a generation made ill by to much freedom.