Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
A fading actress drives the Los Angeles freeways for hours to keep from falling apart as her marriage and Hollywood life come undone
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The Dry Heart
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A plain young bride in 1940s Italy marries a distant older man, and the story begins with her shooting him
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