Book: Play It As It Lays
Basic Information:
Author: Joan Didion
Edition: epub on Libby from the Fresno County Library
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374529949 (ISBN10: 0374529949)
Start Date: December 7, 2025
Read Date: December 18, 2025
231 pages
Genre: Fiction, Book Group
Language Warning: Medium-Words and adult themes, such as nihilism, sex and drugs
Rated Overall: 3 out of 5-probably should be more because I did not understand what Didion wanted me to understand
Fiction-Tells a good story: 3 out of 5
Fiction-Character development: 4 out of 5
Synopsis (Caution: Spoiler Alert-Jump to Thoughts):
Maria was raised by a gambler father and a loving, but neurotic, mother in an isolated place in Nevada where they owned a resort which was waiting for a highway to be routed by it which never came. She makes it as an actress in New York, but she also is being pimped. She leaves New York and goes to Hollywood. There she marries a director, Carter.
She also has had a daughter who has been institutionalized due to some brain problem. The daughter is 4 years old-Maria thinks that she can rescue her in some fashion.
Maria has an affair, which it seems like everybody in the book is having one. She gets pregnant and has an abortion from the “only clean” doctor in Los Angeles. This feeds into her depression. She realizes that nothing matters. By this time, she and her husband have divorced and he is filming a movie in the desert with another woman who is the lead.
Maria is also brought to the desert with her ex-husband because of her depression. She is in a motel room with a friend, BZ. He also thinks that there is nothing in life. Unlike Maria, BZ sees the futility of living and commits suicide with Maria besides him. The story ends with Maria in an insane asylum.
Cast of Characters:
- Maria Wyeth-31 year old washed up actress
- Carter-Maria’s director husband
- Kate-Maria’s four-year old daughter who is in an institution
- Ivan Costello-blackmailer,
- Benny Austin-friend of Maria’s father, Maria’s godfather
- Les Goodwin-Maria’s lover
- BZ-producer of Carter’s film’s, friend of Maria and Carter who commits suicide
- Helene-BZ’s wife
- Carlotta Mendenhall Fisher-BZ’s very rich mother
- Freddy Chaikin-Maria’s agent
- Sidney and Ruth Loomis-Friends of Carter, a screenwriter and a civil rights activist
- Larry Kulik-lawyer
- Recommendation: Alta Magazine in an article called 25 Books That Define California
- When: July 2025
- Date Became Aware of Book: July 2025
- Why do I want to read this book: First, it was a book which would fit in with my book group. Second, I have wanted to read Joan Didion and this was my chance.
- What do I think I will get out of it? I do not know, probably a good read.
Thoughts:
There are 87 chapters in this book.
The first three chapters give an overview of what happens in the book. This overview is from three perspectives: Maria, Carter and Helene.
This book almost reads as an extended tract for how hopeless we are without something to define us. As a Christian, I would say the alternative what Didion presents would be the hope we have in Christ.
The other thought which I have is that this book was written in 1970 before abortion became legal. It was written in the time period around 1963. Maria has an abortion. After the abortion, Maria’s mental health takes a nose dive. Did her feeling of nothingness, emptiness, get caused by the abortion? I have wondered why more anti-abrtion activists do not use this book as a text for their arguments against abortion.
Maria
This is the longest chapter in the whole book.
Where Maria writes this is in an institution. I took it that she was looking back, but in Wikipedia, it seems this is more at the beginning of the story. Her one objective is to get back her daughter Kate who is also in an institution-for different reasons-not sure if this is the same institution or a different one. .Her husband, whom she blames, put Kate in there.
What makes Iago evil? This is the first sentence in the book. Like with much of this book, I needed to look this up. Lago is a Shakespeare character from the play Orthello. Lago back stabs Orthello. This sets the tone for the book. Trust is lost, friends are not really friends. All have ulterior motives.
Didion has Maria talking about snakes and how some are venomous and some are not. Even if they appear to be identical. Why? Unless you are prepared to take the long view, there is no satisfactory “answer” to such questions.
The psychologist asks her various ink blot questions. Her answer is that NOTHING APPLIES. And that is the key to the book-I thing Applies or has significance.
Maria is 31 years old, divorced from Carter, and has one daughter Kate. She got her looks from her mother and optimism from her father-who was a gambler. Talks about her background. Her father and Barney Austin were partners in a venture in a small town called Silver Wells which turned into a ghost town. There were dreams of hitting it big. The difference between her father and her was that her father had plans and she had none.
Her mother dies while she is in New York being a model and studying to be an actress. This shatters her life. Her father is full of gambler phrases, like she holds all the aces.
She rambles about various things in her past life, such as getting married and being put into a couple pictures.
Now? She spends her time playing solitaire, by the sea and trying not to think of certain things like plumbing and dead things-these are associated with her abortion. She also tries not to think about places she used to live or her ex.
She notes that if she was holding all the aces, she did not know the game. This is part of the story where Maria seems to go through life clueless.
Who was Margaret Sukkavan?
Helene
She tries to visit Maria in the institution, but not for her, but for almost every other reason. She is hurt that Maria did not stop BZ from killing himself. From Helene’s point of view,Maria was a selfish woman.
Carter
Maria has never understood friendship. I do not think Carter really had friends either. But the difference is that Carter had people whom he associated and interacted with. Maria would be around people, but would not interact with them. There are several things which Carter remembers about his time with Maria. It was after a succession of such small scenes that I began to see the improbability of a rapprochement with Maria
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The chapters above are a prelude to the next 84 chapters. The following chapters are not necessarily told in order and are more of a remembrance of Maria’s life. Each is short.
Chapter 1
Starts the main part of the book a year after Maria and Carter separated. Even though Maria did not have anywhere to go, she drove her Corvette on the freeway. This idea of nowhere to go , that she is drifting, but moving fast is a description of Maria’s life. Accomplishments are measured not in significance, but in doing something insignificant well.
Chapter 2
Maria as an actress. But even in the movies she was in, Carter, the director, was the bigger attraction for people than Maria. That may be, except for Carter’s friend, BZ who owned all of the prints of a never distributed picture called Maria. Maria did not want to understand why BZ ran that first picture so often or what it had to do with Helene. Was it porn? Didion never says. But there is a comment later that said that BZ owned all the copies.
Chapter 4
Didion talks about when everything in Los Angeles looks beautiful. There is nothing overt which is said, but what Didion is showing the reader is the fakeness of the place and the culture. She uses a phrase which I do not understand: hour of apparent grace. BZ says that Larry Kulik once came across the meaning of life while being operated on-but Didion does not clue us in.
Chapter 6
Maria drives and ends up in Baker-about a three hour drive from her home. She did not have a destination, but it is near where Carter is filming. She runs through a conversation in her mind about phoning Carter to say she was close by and running though several scenarios, decided not to call. She understood that the bottom line on the conversation would be that each would think of the other as the murderer of time, a destroyer of life itself. Interesting how DIldion portrays an argument where each thinks the other is the deadly one.
Chapter 7
Maria is coerced into going to a party with BZ which she does not want to go to. She is more of an observer than a participant. Such as she saw someone who registered on her only as a foreigner or a faggot or a gangster. A person who she knew made a remark about Carter, which she tried to answer, but found that the person was more interested in sex with a young starlet.
Chapter 8
Afterwards, BZ is asked how the party went. He said everyone got what they came for. Appearances? Sex? Connections? What might be missing is human into human interaction. This may be one of the more condemning chapters in the whole book. Didion shows how superficial that life is.
Chapter 11
Maria announces to Carter she is pregnant and she is not sure who the father is-both are pretty sure it is her lover, Les Goodwin, who is married. It came to her that in the scenario of her life this would be what was called an obligatory scene, and she wondered with distant interest just how long the scene would play.
There are a couple of paragraphs in which Carter tries to figure out how Maria’s mind works. It appears that she just goes from one thought to another without a connection. Such as going to a doctor who happens to be close to where she is shopping.
The importance of knowing who you are marrying before you marry. Usually you do not really find that out until a couple years afterwards.
Chapter 12
With the pregnancy announcement, Maria has finally been able to get a reaction out of Carter. She now understands Carter as a dropper of friends and names and obligations. Carter had now dropped her.
Chapter 13
Carter has arranged to have Maria have an abortion at the only “clean place” in Los Angeles. . Maria is not sure she wants that. Carter says if she does not, then he will take Kate, their daughter.
Chapter 14
She calls and is asked about How advanced is the problem? Interesting phrasing which Didion provides. A pregnancy is a problem, not a child or child to be. We try to anesthetize what we are dealing with. If we cannot name it properly, then we do not need to deal with a human.
Chapter 16
Bad dreams about how she had not done what she wanted to do with her mother. Then Carter asks about the abortion. Interesting how Didion makes that connection.
Chapter 17
Maria is not facing reality-she is buying baby stuff as if she was keeping the baby.
Chapter 18
She likes the corner of LaBrea and Sunset. This corner is referenced later on. There is a Facebook post showing a picture of that corner in 1965 which says: In 1965, the intersection of La Brea and Sunset Boulevard was a vibrant crossroads in Los Angeles. Known for its eclectic mix of businesses, the area catered to both locals and visitors exploring the Hollywood scene. The wide streets bustled with activity, as cars cruised past iconic landmarks and neon signs lit up the night. La Brea and Sunset epitomized the cultural diversity and urban energy that defined Los Angeles during the mid-20th century.
She tries to get a hold of Les Goodwin, but gets his wife. Maria is rattled by this and says for Les to call her back.
Chapter 22
The abortion is Carter’s idea-this is the last thing she will do for him. She also expects to die from it. She is making her last farewells.
Chapter 24
Maria goes to the appointed spot to be guided to the house where the abortion takes place. She is still trying to create the illusion that this is not an abortion. she saw now that she was not a woman on her way to have an abortion. She was a woman parking a Corvette outside a tract house while a man in white pants talked about buying a Camaro. The person in the white pants wants to buy a Camaro-he is her guide to where the abortion will take place. He makes conversation almost like the abortion is not going to be traumatic to Maria.
Chapter 25
The place where the abortion takes place is a tract house. Newspapers are on the floor-she thinks that the print on it will keep things clean. There, that was a good thing to think about, at any rate not a bad thing if she kept her father out of it. She tries to keep her mind off of the procedure. The doctor’s voice is very sterile. She still screams. Then it is done. Her guide keeps on talking about things which do not matter to her.
Paula Raymond-mentioned in passing
Chapter 26
She wants to indulge herself after the abortion which it does not appear that Goodwin knows about. She also wants to drown out all of the sensation she can.
In the next chapters, she just wants to talk with her mother.
Then complications from the abortion.
Chapter 33
Then the dreams started. One particular one was that the plumbing was backed up. Of course she could not call a plumber, because she had known all along what would be found in the pipes, what hacked pieces of human flesh. The guilt from aborting her child. Maria moves out to a rental.
Chapter 36
Carter does not understand why she is renting a house when she has a perfectly good house. “Then don’t get it,” she said at the exact instant the house splintered and fell. A metaphor which I do not understand-Maria was watching the news when the house fell off the cliff. Is this how Maria felt her life was going?
Carter on the other hand sees the abortion as just a medical procedure without implications. So he has no sympathy.
Maria realizes that there will be plumbing everywhere she lives. So she has to live with plumbing issues and the thought of dead fetus’ in the drain. She moves back home.
Chapter 37
Carter and Maria got divorced.
Chapter 39
Talks about Maria first meeting BZ. He is looking at one of Carter’s movies. He asks Carter, how did Maria feel about the gangbang? This is a movie which BZ becomes infatuated with, and the implication is he is infatuated with Maria.
Also there is an implication that Carter makes porn movies and that Maria is a porn actress.
Chapter 42
A short chapter where Maria says to Carter she is going to New York, which she does not do. But All that day Maria thought of fetuses floating down New York’s East River. The abortion continues to haunt her.
Chapter 44
The hypnotist had found that many people could be regressed not only to infancy but to the very instant of their conception. This is on a mimeographed flyer. Maria called.
Chapter 45
While Maria was getting her hair done, the hairdresser seemed more interested in another woman. the thin beautiful girl with the pelvic abscess and the separate maintenance and her hair all done and nobody to drink with.
Chapter 47
Maria sees the hypnotist who tries to lead her to the womb. Instead, Maria says that she is in the left lane so that she can see the New Havana Ballroom. Is this Dildion’s dig on psychologists?
Chapter 48
More dreams and imagination. This time she has a column of children going by where their hair lockets would be collected and Maria would give her instructions were to whisper a few comforting words to those children who cried or held back, because this was a humane operation. Continued guilt about the abortion.
Chapter 49
First hints of nihilism in the book. This is a conversation between Helene, BZ’s wife and Maria.It’s shit,” Helene said. “It’s all shit. I think Helene now realizes that how she is going, there is no meaning.
Chapter 51
There is a hint in this chapter about why Maria is despondent. She and Goodwin have a liaison up the coast. But when they finally make a connection, they realize that their whole relationship is pointless. They talked, but then They mentioned everything but one thing: that she had left the point in a bedroom in Encino.
Chapter 53
Carter is going to Cannes and checks in with Maria. They do not connect, but Maria notes that after he had left, the spectre of his joyless face would reach her, She later on tries to lie to him about seeing his movie, but she could not have seen it since it was not showing since they talked.
Chapter 54
She got stood up for a movie part and drove until she came to a place where she could cry. She cried for all of her losses. Then she realized that she must have been keeping a relentless count somewhere, because this was the day, the day the baby would have been born. More regret over her abortion.
Chapter 55
Brief thing on Ivan Costello which really does not explain the relationship. It does say that his goal is to make money off of Maria. Maria’s goal is to have a family.
Chapter 56
She gives up on the psychologist. Then issues the plea: I need help,” she said. “Ivan, I need help bad. I wonder what kind of help Ivan would be. In the next chapter, it turns out Ivan is not of any help.
Chapter 58
Maria runs into her godfather, Benny Austin at the craps table at the Flamingo.
Chapter 59
She was with Larry Kulik. But nothing happened.
Chapter 60
Arrested for stealing a car-the person whom she went home from a party with and had sex with.
Chapter 61
Freddy Chaikin gets her released without a record. He says that she has a self-destructive personality structure.
Chapter 62
Documents her continued slide down. Helene tries to get her to go back home with her and Maria refuses. Maria is at a party and Felicia Goodwin, her lover’s husband tries to get her to leave with them and she refuses. She wakes up after the party at BZ and Helene’s place. She had dreamed of driving fast out of town and farther into the desert.
Chapter 63
Maybe alluding to early Sadio-Massocism games between BZ and Helene. A few chapters earlier, Maria noted she would not do S-M.
Chapter 66
Carter continues to be worried about Maria. He wants her to go out to the desert with him when he shoots his next film. She seems a bit lifeless in her response, but it is not a no.
Chapter 67
Maria backs out of going to the desert and Carter resigns himself to having her die. She gets a prescription for barbiturates and then on evenings she drove. Symbolism here.
Ivan Costello goes to her house. She has sex with him-but it is lifeless. He leaves.
She calls Les Goodwin. He does not have time for her and she does not react to him.
Chapter 69
Maria does go out into the desert with Carter. But there is no connection either emotionally or sexually.
Chapter 70
Describes the place on the border of Death Valley and Nevada as hot, dry and almost nothing there but a motel.
Chapter 71
Interesting little dialogue between Maria and Helene. Maria says something which is unkind. Helene says If it's not funny don’t say it. A sense that you cannot take your life too seriously. You only play things for laughs.
BZ and Maria have a dialogue the next day Maria lists a series of people whom she is tired of. BZ asks, what else is she tired of? Maria does not know. The BZ says You’re getting there. Where? Where I am at. This is a sense that BZ does not see any future in what he is doing. There may be nothing to live for.
Chapter 72
The starlet of Carter’s film got beaten up. Nobody is saying how. Evidently the male star and her were having rough sex. Carter was there.
Carter asks Maria what she wants. She does not want anything. Carter tries to verbally fight her. She gives up. Maria asks why do you say those things. Why do you fight.” He would sit on the bed and put his head in his hands. “To find out if you’re alive.
As I am thinking about this and the need to awaken us. This brings me back to GK Chesterton’s book, ManAlive! The protagonist, Innocent Smith, does all sorts of things to make himself alive, which gets himself in trouble. We find out at the end of the book that this is his version of a vacation in which his wife is an accomplice. The difference between Maria and Innocent Smith is that Smith is alive and sees purpose in it while Maria is degrading and sees no positive in her existence.
Chapter 74
My father advised me that life itself was a crap game: it was one of the two lessons I learned as a child. The other was that overturning a rock was apt to reveal a rattlesnake
Chapter 75
BZ brings the news to Maria that Carter is having sex with Helene. BZ then says:
Tell me what matters,” BZ said. “Nothing,” Maria said. And that is the whole crux of the book-what matters?
Chapter 76
Didion now jumps us to after Maria has been committed to a Neuropsychiatric ward. BZ has committed suicide in Maria’s presence, while Carter and Helene are having sex. Didion will now lead us backwards a bit.
Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect-such as Maria’s insanity caused BZ’s suicide. She also notes that they think there is a sharp dividing line between sanity and being insane.Helene thinks that it was because Maria was not being aware of what was happening did BZ commit suicide. my insanity, as if it had somehow slipped my attention what BZ was doing. Later Maria makes it perfectly clear she knew what was happening and that because nothing matters, it did not matter if BZ died.
Chapter 77
This chapter takes us back to before 76. Carter is making one last attempt at getting Maria to desire something. Maria starts to tell a story, Carter is impatient and wants the punchline immediately. Maria says that a man died-to clarify, this man is an old-timer who got bitten by a rattlesnake. Then Maria asks Carter about the man,“I mean do you think God answered?[the old man] Or don’t you?” Carter leaves the room. I think this is totally outside of Carter’s world view, therefore he cannot answer.
She felt nothing-not even heat of the desert or emotion.
Carter tries one more time “Tell me what you feel.” She looked at the hand he held out to her. “Nothing,” Actually, she does desire one thing, that is her daughter Kate.
Chapter 80
This is in the Neuropsychiatric ward. The one time Ivan Costello got through the switchboard to me here he told me that I had lost my sense of humor. In spite of what Carter and Helene think, maybe my sense of humor was all I did lose.
Chapter 81
The picture gang is going into Vegas to catch a show. BZ says he is not going. Helene asks the Carter question: What do you want? BZ looked at Helene. “Exactly nothing,” he said pleasantly. Maria dropped a tray of ice on the floor. This is a Maria answer and this gets to the theme of the book. What happens when somebody wants nothing?
Chapter 82
Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing. The warning which Maria has is that Carter and Helene if they keep asking the question, may come to the same conclusion. Maria actually wants three things: get Kate, be with Kate, and do canning, just like her mother.
Chapter 83
Everybody but BZ and Maria have gone to Vegas. BZ comments to Maria: You’re still playing. Meaning, she has not gotten to the point of her nothingness that life is meaningless, why put yourself through the agony of living. His comment is that “Some day you’ll wake up and you just won’t feel like playing any more.” BZ thinks that he and her know something everybody else does not. She falls asleep and he takes a lethal dose of sleeping pills.
Chapter 84
One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what “nothing” means, and keep on playing.
BZ would have asked, why keep on playing?
Why not, I say
Evaluation:
What does it look like to like a life of meaninglessness? A life without hope? A life which means nothing? Even if you have all of the physical pleasures which life can give you? Wealth, sex, alcohol, drugs, glamour are all things in abundance which Maria has and yet there is nothing which is there which will fill her inner desires, except for seeing her institutionalized four-year old daughter.
Didion takes us through a short segment of Maria’s life, an actress and model, where she is married to a prominent movie director. Maria literally does not need for anything nor does she need to work. But there is a dark side to this fairy tale existence. Violence both in the form of verbal abuse as well as in the form of sadio-massocism. No relationship is sacred; husbands and wives cheat on each other both knowingly or in hiding.
And then there is the abortion Maria has because she is not sure whose child she is carrying. There are emotional and mental trauma which accompanies this unlawful operation. Maria’s life goes in a tailspin from an already spiraling existence.
This is what Didion takes us through, culminating in the suicide of a friend of Maria’s who both hold the secret to their lives: Nothing Matters.
Here is where I will give my confession: without reading some background on this book, I do not think I would have understood what Joan Didion wanted me to understand without assistance from other sources. Is this a defect in the book or me? Or maybe the book was not for me. This was my first Joan Didion book-I have wanted to read her for awhile. My chance came when my book group decided that each one of us would read a story about California recommended by Alta magazine.
Notes from my book group:
Why did Didion write this book?
She starts off the book with this question: What makes Iago evil? Who is Iago? Why does Didion start the book with this question? How does evil present itself in this book?
The title of the book is Play It As It Lays. What is this title referencing? How is the title related to life? How did it influence Maria and the way she lived?
In chapter four, Didion uses the phrase: hour of apparent grace. What is this referring to?
In chapter six, Didion uses the phrase: murderer of time, a destroyer of life itself about what Carter and Maria thought of their conversations. What does this say about the value each placed on each other? Why do they keep talking to each other?
What images and metaphors does Didion use? What do they signify?
To Maria Nothing Mattered. How does she come to this state of being? How does this concept form the direction of the book? Discuss this concept as a way to live? Can you live when nothing matters? Why or why not?
At the end of the book, Maria says that she knows what Nothing means? What does she know?
BZ notes that Maria is still playing. What does he mean by that? He thinks Maria would wake up and stop playing. Why do you think BZ stopped playing? What happens when you stop playing?
Carter noted that Maria has never understood friendship. Do you think Maria had friends who were her friends? If so, what characteristics of friendship were there? Do you think Carter had friends?
On the other hand, Maria sees Carter as a dropper of friends and names and obligations. How do you feel around such a person? Do you think there is really any friendship?
When Maria calls about the abortion, she is asked How advanced is the problem? How do words help or hinder us when we tag something?
What effect did the abortion have on Maria? Do you think she regretted it? Do you think this is common? Is this a product of Didion’s imagination or her research?
Do you think Didion is making a statement about abortion? If so, why does she need to make a statement?
How do Maria and Carter view the abortion differently? How does this illustrate the differences between them?
How does Didion portray the hypnotist? Is Didion trying to convey something to us? Is the hypnotist of any use to Maria?
While in the desert, Carter picks a fight with Maria to see if she is still alive. Do you think she was alive? How would you describe her state of being towards the end of the book? What does it mean to be alive?
Helene and Carter think in terms of sanity and insanity, as if they are mutually exclusive. Is this an accurate way to think about our mental state of being? How should we think about normalcy of mind and what is abnormal?
Maria tells a story about a man getting bit and dying of a rattlesnake bite. She notes the man prayed. She then asks Carter: do you think God answered? Or don’t you? What does this question indicate to you about Maria? What does Carter’s reaction indicate? How would you react to the question?
Los Angeles is often shown to be one big playground. Even if it is, what does Dildion’s story tell us about a place where all of our desires are provided for?
The question of does a life have meaning or does it not have a great deal of significance to how a life is lived. Is this a true statement? Why did you answer like you did? What gives a life significance?
What does the author want us to feel when we read this book?
How do you want your life to change because you read this book?
Many of these questions are either from or adapted from LitLovers.
Why the title of Play It As It Lays?
Did the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?
Which character was the most convincing? Least?
Which character did you identify with?
Which one did you dislike?
Every story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?
In what context was religion talked about in this book?
Why do you think the author wrote this book?
What would you ask the author if you had a chance?
What “takeaways” did you have from this book?
Describe the culture talked about in the book.
How is the culture described in this book different from where you live?
How did this book affect your view of the world?
Of how God is viewed?
What questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?
Talk about specific passages that struck you as significant—or interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?
What was memorable?
Reading Groups General Fiction Guide
New Words:
- kraits-any of 12 species of highly venomous snakes belonging to the cobra family (Elapidae). Kraits live in Asian forests and farmland.
- Fiorinal-prescription combination medication used to treat tension headaches
- beaucoup-many or much
- Laszlo-glorious ruler
- auteur principle-the director is the primary creative force ("author") of a film, imparting their unique personal vision, themes, and signature style across their body of work, making their films recognizable and consistent, much like a novelist's books
- cheese glass coated with Pernod- a specific culinary experience or cocktail preparation method, where the
- anise-flavored spirit Pernod is used to coat the inside of a glass
- dailies-films another word for rushes
- musculature-the system or arrangement of muscles in a body, part of the body, or an organ
Good Quotes:
- First Line: What makes Iago evil?
- Last Line: Why not, I say
References:
- Publisher's Web Site for Book
- Author's Website
- Wikipedia-Book
- Wikipedia-Author
- Amazon-Book
- Amazon-Author
- Barnes and Noble
- GoodReads-Book
- GoodReads-Author
- Los Angeles Times Review
- Lit Charts
- Alta Magazine (movie)
- Frappes and Fiction blog
- JaquiWine blog
- Book Around the Corner
- Pechorin's Journal
- The Sheila Variations
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